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Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a long narrow bay or arm (now only in place-names, as Bras d'Or, N.S.).
Quotations
1817
A land of eight perches and thirteen feet in front . . . beginning at the River St. Lawrence and running to the bras St. Nicholas, to the south of which bras is the land of Jacques Kirouh.