Bosporus

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea. archaic

    "It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Bosphorus. alt-of, alternative

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constantinopleconstantinople straitistanbulistanbul strait

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"It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]"

Etymology

Latin

Related phrases

Cimerrian Bosporus

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