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noun
1.
a county in SW England. 397,200; 1369 sq. mi. (3545 sq. km).
2.
a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, SW of Ottawa, on the St. Lawrence. 46,144.
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Cornwall
O.E. Cornwalas (891), Cornubia (c.705), from name of a Celtic tribe, Latinized as Cornovii, lit. "peninsula people" (from Celt. kernou "horn," hence "headland"), to which the Anglo-Saxons added O.E. walh "stranger, foreigner," especially if Celtic (see Welsh).
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