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English
Noun
harborough (plural harboroughs)
- Obsolete spelling of harbour.
- 1545, a letter from the Duke of Norfolk to King Hebry VIII, printed in 1830, in State Papers: Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Commission: King Henry the Eighth, chapter CCX, page 782:
- having upon sea borde greate sandes, which do make the harborough good, and bytwene the londing place and the towne is, at the leste, 40 score tayloures yardes,
1582, Nicolas [i.e., Nicolo] Zeno; Antonio Zeno, “The Discouerie of the Isles of Frisland, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo and Icaria, Made by M. Nicolas Zeno, Knight, and M. Antonio His Brother”, in R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, , London: for Thomas Woodcocke, , →OCLC, signatures D4, recto – D4, verso:[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.
1589, Richard Hakluyt, “The relation of John de Verrazano a Florentine, of the land by him discovered in the name of his Majestie. Written in Diepe the eight of July, 1524”, in The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, , London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, , →OCLC:For all the sea coastes are ful of clear and glistering stones, & alabaster, and therefore it is full of good havens and harboroughs for ships.
1640, The Safegarde of Saylers, or great Rutter. Contayning the courses, dystances, deapths, soundings, flouds and ebbes, with the marks for the entring of sundry harboroughs both of England, Fraunce, Spaine, Ireland, Flaunders, and the Soundes of Denmarke, with other necessarie rules of common nauigation. Translated out of Dutch by Robert Norman.: