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English Dictionary: Cinque Ports by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cinque Ports \Cinque" Ports`\ [Cinque + port.] (Eng. Hist.)
      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.
  
      {Baron of the Cinque Ports}. See under {Baron}.
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