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Island of Guernsey   /ˈaɪlənd əv gˈərnzi/   Listen
Island of Guernsey

noun
1.
A Channel Island to the northwest of Jersey.  Synonym: Guernsey.






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"Island of Guernsey" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was taken in charge by an Assistant Inspector of Police, and after a scrimmage for my chief's baggage and my own, which reminded me of a long ago landing on the distant island of Guernsey, the inspector and I got into a 'rickshaw, locally called a go-cart. It was pulled in front by two government negroes and pushed behind by another pair, all neatly attired in white jackets and knee breeches, and crimson cummerbunds yards long, bound round their middles. Now it is an ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... speaks of a tradition of Major-General Lambert's having been imprisoned in Cornet Castle, in the island of Guernsey, after the Restoration. The following documents, copies of which exist in Guernsey, will prove that he really was kept as a prisoner ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 • Various



Words linked to "Island of Guernsey" :   Channel Island



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