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Where does “cobourg” come from?

Cobourg comes from English Coburg, a town in Bavaria whose name is of uncertain origin.

cobourg (English): A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses

Definitions

  1. A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses

Ancestry of “cobourg”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishCoburgA thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton...
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