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Cairns

[ kairnz ]

noun

  1. a seaport in NE Australia.


Cairns

/ kænz; kɛənz /

noun

  1. a port in NE Australia, in Queensland. Pop: 98 981 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

My ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous cairns in the landscape of my back.

At the summit two cairns were found, the bamboo poles which had previously marked them having blown over.

At intervals along the trail they would erect other cairns to mark the way over the desert of snow.

I have heard that some of those high schools are really excellent, drawled Miss Cairns.

Then there were sacred cairns, consisting of stones thrown together by passers by, every one adding his stone.

If any one removed these cairns, or part thereof, superstitious people predicted evil to the spoiler.

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