Chincoteague

[ shing-kuh-teeg, ching- ]

/ ˌʃɪŋ kəˈtig, ˌtʃɪŋ- /

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noun

a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay ) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.

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We were all already looking forward to coming back to Chincoteague for more idyllic calm — and another spin around the bay with Captain Barry.
On Virginia’s Chincoteague Island — all this and ponies, too|Nevin Martell|September 2, 2021|Washington Post
Driving onto Chincoteague, Maddox Boulevard unfurls across the island’s midsection.
On Virginia’s Chincoteague Island — all this and ponies, too|Nevin Martell|September 2, 2021|Washington Post
When most people think of Chincoteague, they think of its fabled mares and stallions galloping through its marshy, wild lands and grazing along its shoreline.
On Virginia’s Chincoteague Island — all this and ponies, too|Nevin Martell|September 2, 2021|Washington Post
This loft over a former groggery is no place for you: the news will spread from Chincoteague to Arlington.
The Entailed Hat|George Alfred Townsend

The moonlight scarcely fretted the soft expanse of Chincoteague Bay.
Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend
The bay of Chincoteague is five or six miles wide, and the nearest hamlet is in Virginia, as is Chincoteague island also.
Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend
Wrecks came ashore on the submerged shoal of Chincoteague, but there were now no wreckers to labor for salvage.
Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend
If they wanted money for public enterprise on the mainland, the Jew of Chincoteague was first to be thought of.
Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend