Burgeo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A corruption of Portuguese Mill Virgines (thousand virgins), a toponym originally applied to the Burgeo Islands.[1]

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Burgeo

  1. A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1996, William Baillie Hamilton, Place Names of Atlantic Canada, University of Toronto Press, page 156

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