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White Rock

noun

  1. a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
  2. one of a variety of white Plymouth Rock chickens.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of White Rock1

1940–45, Americanism White Rock fordef 2

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Example Sentences

Another completed investigation linked a missing foot via DNA evidence to a 23-year-old man from White Rock, B.C.

He also knew white rock 'n' roll better than the white rockers themselves.

He turned and renewed his quick progress, leaping from boulder to boulder, between narrowing walls of gray-white rock.

In the ravine he found a shallow cave, behind a great white rock.

One klompje down on the draai by the white rock had nearly sixty birds in it, and now there are nine.

It made a pretty picture in the early morning, the white rock peeping out of luxuriant creepers and foliage.

We soon after came to the White Rock—an enormous detached mass, or boulder of transition,  or semi-crystalline limestone.

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