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Scarborough

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Scar·bor·ough  (skärbûr, -br, -br-)
A municipal borough of northeast England on the North Sea north of Hull. Site of a Bronze Age village and a fourth-century a.d. Roman signaling tower, it is a noted seaside resort. Population: 38,300.
Scarborough [ˈskɑːbrə]
n
(Placename) a fishing port and resort in NE England, in North Yorkshire on the North Sea: developed as a spa after 1660; ruined 12th-century castle. Pop.: 38 809 (1991)


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The others have been gone on to Scarborough, these three weeks.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
But Lucy was not yet able to go to church, or any place where Maggie could see her; and even the hope of that departed, when the news was told her by aunt Glegg, that Lucy was really going away in a few days to Scarborough with the Miss Guests, who had been heard to say that they expected their brother to meet them there.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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