Clovelly

/ kləˈvɛlɪ /

noun

1. a village in SW England, in Devon on the Bristol Channel: famous for its steep cobbled streets: tourism, fishing. Pop: 472 (2001)

Example Sentences

Otherwise we should be required to name this house 'Sea View' or 'Clovelly.'

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You last heard of me at Clovelly—where we spent a delightful month—more rain than was pleasant—but on the whole charming.

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Clovelly's great herring fishery used to be famous, but it is not now so large as it used to be.

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"Old" and "new" have a local meaning of their own in Clovelly which does not exactly apply anywhere else.

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One cannot have too many legs in Clovelly,—a centipede would find himself at an uncommon advantage.

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