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Dover
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A port town in Kent, England, the closest point to France, and the name of numerous other towns worldwide including the capital of Delaware.
"They took the ferry from Dover across the Channel."
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Etymology
From Old English Dofras, from Latin Dubris, from Brythonic Dubras ("the waters"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- ("deep").