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means A breed of beef cattle, red-bodied with a white face, prized for hardiness and good foraging — now farmed worldwide.

from Named after Hereford, a cathedral city in the west of England near the Welsh border, where the breed was developed by local farmers in the 1700s who bred for a sturdy, easily-fattened beef animal. The city's own name is far older, from Old English 'here' (army) and 'ford' (river crossing) — a place where troops once forded a river. The cattle borrowed the city's name, not the reverse, though the essence above jokes otherwise.