Puget sound
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Definitions
- 1 A sound along the northwestern coast of Washington, United States.
"A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said."
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More examples"A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said."
Etymology
Originally "Puget's Sound". Named after English Hugenot Royal Navy officer Peter Puget (1765–1822), who accompanied Captain George Vancouver on his 1792 exploration of the Salish Sea.