Cherbourg

[ shair-boorg; French sher-boor ]

noun

1. a seaport in NW France.

Cherbourg

/ ʃɛrbur; ˈʃɛəbʊəɡ /

noun

1. a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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