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Banbury

[ ban-ber-ee, -buh-ree, -bree, bam- ]

noun

  1. a town in N Oxfordshire, in S England.


Banbury

/ ˈbænbərɪ /

noun

  1. a town in central England, in N Oxfordshire: telecommunications, financial services. Pop: 43 867 (2001)


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Example Sentences

“We are far, far away from ending this crisis,” said Banbury.

We passed through Banbury, whose cross, famous in nursery rhyme, is only modern.

The booking-clerk at Banbury remembered only three gents booking by that particular train.

The station-master was a family man himself, and when we explained the case to him he sympathised and telegraphed to Banbury.

Early in the seventeenth century, the Puritans were very strong in Banbury.

Bishop Williams, in 1664, describes the clipped and pared lands and glebes of the Church "as thin as Banbury cheese."

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