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Coburg

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Co·burg  (kbûrg)
A city of central Germany north of Nuremberg. It was first mentioned in the 11th century. Population: 41,600.
coburg [ˈkəʊˌbɜːg]
n
(Cookery) (sometimes capital) a rounded loaf with a cross cut on the top Also called coburg loaf
[apparently named in honour of Prince Albert (of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), the name of the British royal family from 1901-1917]
Coburg [ˈkəʊbɜːg (German) ˈkoːbʊrk]
n
(Placename) a city in E Germany, in N Bavaria. Pop.: 44 690 (1991)


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Sherlock Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
And when, again upon the shore, we turned and saw from the vessel's mast her name signalled in flags of joyous colours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful American banner with its stars and stripes, - the long three thousand miles and more, and, longer still, the six whole months of absence, so dwindled and faded, that the ship had gone out and come home again, and it was broad spring already in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
My eye is yet filled with visions of the high-flounced, slovenly, and tumbled dresses in costly silk and satin, of the large unbecoming collars in expensive lace; of the ill-cut coats and strangely fashioned pantaloons which every Sunday, at the English service, filled the choirs of the chapel-royal, and after it, issuing forth into the square, came into disadvantageous contrast with freshly and trimly attired foreign figures, hastening to attend salut at the church of Coburg.
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