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Webster 1913 Edition
Cinque Ports
Cinque′ Portsˊ
.[
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
.