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Cinque Ports (The)

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Originally the five seaports. Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, and Hythe. Subsequently Winchelsea and Rye were added.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cid
Cid Hamet Benengeli
Cigogne (French)
Cillaros
Cimmerian Bosphorus
Cimmerian Darkness
Cinohona
Cincinnatus
Cinderella [little cinder girl]
Cinque Cento
Cinque Ports (The)
Cinter (A)
Cipher
Circe
Circle of Ulloa
Circuit
Circumbendibus (A)
Circumcellians
Circumcised Brethren (in Hudibras)
Circumlocution Office
Ciric-Sceat or Church Scot

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Cinque Ports