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Amherst
Amherst
proper n
OE
hirst
, wooded hill.
ED's hometown; nineteenth-century western Massachusetts community; village named for Jeffrey Amherst, 1<sup>st</sup> Baron and British commander in French and Indian War; (see ED letters).