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cinque ports

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Noun Plural

CIDE DICTIONARY

cinque ports,  [Cinque + port.].
     Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.  [1913 Webster]
Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cinque ports, n.pl. a group of ports (orig. five only) on the SE coast of England with ancient privileges.

Etymology
ME f. OF cink porz, L quinque portus five ports

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