Cherbourg

[ shair-boorg; French sher-boor ]

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noun

Cherbourg

/ ʃɛrbur; ˈʃɛəbʊəɡ /

The name is territorial; and the better opinion is inclined to connect it with Brix, between Cherbourg and Valognes.

Topmasts were housed, and they passed into the breakwater ready for the two-miles beat through Cherbourg Roads.

Lady Belfast describes very amusingly the visit of the English yachts to Cherbourg and the welcome they had there.

The ship went about, and stood to the southward, the principal intending to go into Cherbourg if the weather would permit.

I thought I was east of Cherbourg, when I was far to the west and stopped my engine in that belief, and then set it going again.

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