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Meaning of harborough | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of harbour.
    alt-of, obsolete
  2. A local government district in Leicestershire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Market Harborough (after which it was named)

Examples

“[…] having upon sea borde greate sandes, which do make the harborough good, and bytwene the londing place and the towne is, at the leste, 40 score tayloures yardes, …”
“[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.”
“For all the sea coastes are ful of clear and glistering stones, & alabaster, and therefore it is full of good havens and harboroughs for ships.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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