Cobourg

American  

[koh-burg] / ˈkoʊ bɜrg /

noun

1. a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Ontario: summer resort.

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Example Sentences

In Peter Doig’s magnetic 1994 painting “Cobourg 3 + 1 More,” snow seems to fall in the front of the canvas, forcing you to cast through it to the blurry image behind, and to serve “almost as a screen or veil of memory,” as the critic Adrian Searle noted in a 2017 lecture with Christie’s.

From New York Times

Kathy Lawrence, who was on the Ghan with her husband to celebrate his 40th birthday, told me that the evening was one of the highlights of the three-week trip that had taken them to Darwin, Uluru, the Tiwi Islands and the Cobourg Peninsula.

From The Guardian

Brian and Margi Watkins of Cobourg, Ontario, about an hour’s drive east of Toronto, have known Mastoris since they became season-ticket holders in 1972.

From New York Times

On game days, he and his wife would bring Mastoris his favorite butter tarts, available only near Cobourg.

From New York Times

The German insurance company Provinzial Rheinland Versicherung had enough confidence to offer Peter Doig’s 1994 snowscape “Cobourg 3 + 1 More,” at Christie’s without a guarantee.

From New York Times