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Meaning of 'cinque ports' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Cinque Ports
- 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.

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