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Mulberry Harbour

British

noun

either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944

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Etymology

Origin of Mulberry Harbour

from the code name Operation Mulberry

Example Sentences

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"Over 1,000 people were working there as he was trying to develop some sort of prototype of what would become the Mulberry Harbour."

From BBC • May 31, 2024

At 06:26 BST - the exact minute the first British troops landed on the beaches in 1944 - a lone piper will play on a section of the Mulberry Harbour in the town of Arromanches.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2019

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