Complete Definition of "Cunarder"

English

Pronunciation
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Proper noun
en-proper-noun|Cunarders

  1. a steamship operated by the w:Cunard Line|Cunard Line

Quotations
1877: our Norseman found himself standing on the deck of a huge black-hulled Cunarder — Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen, Tales From Two Hemispheres, 1877

1896: a gasping August, whose hot breath thickened round the Cunarder before she got half-way up the harbor — William Dean Howells, The Landlord At Lions Head, 1896

1912: Wireless despatches up to noon Monday showed that the passengers of the Titanic were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder, which left New York, April 13th, for Naples. — Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, 1912

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