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单词 corfe
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corfen.

Erroneously inferred, with the sense ‘a gap between hills’, from at Corfgeate (F; Latin Porta Corf), æt Corfes geate (E) of Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 978, lit. ‘at Corf's gate’, the cleft in the chalk hills which was the site of the later Corfe Castle.
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1882 Cornhill Mag. July 90 The great square castle that stands in the gap or ‘corfe’ from which it takes its name.
1883 Good Words July 464/1 That most lovely of all English ruins, Corfe Castle; the castle of the gap or corfe between the hills.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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