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Nieuport

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French Nieuport, from Dutch Nieuwpoort.

Proper noun

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Nieuport

  1. A city and municipality of West Flanders, Belgium.
    • 1986 November, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 18 July 2022:
      Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.

French

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Etymology

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From Dutch Nieuwpoort.

Proper noun

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Nieuport ?

  1. a city and municipality of West Flanders, Belgium.