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beaufort
/ˈboʊfəɹt/
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What does beaufort mean?
noun
- A type of French cheese originally from Beaufort-sur-Doron.
proper noun
- A commune in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania.
- A commune in Hérault department, Occitania.
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proper noun
- A commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
- A former commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
- A commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France.
- A commune in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
- A town and commune in Echternach canton, eastern Luxembourg.
- An English habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin.
- Francis Beaufort, British admiral and hydrographer.
- A dukedom in the English peerage.
- A town in Sabah, Malaysia, named after Leicester Paul Beaufort.
- A town, the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina.
- A village in County Kerry, Ireland (Irish grid ref V 8792).
- A suburban village and community in Blaenau Gwent borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1711).
- A locality (previously official) in Barcaldine Region, Queensland.
- A locality in Wakefield council area, South Australia.
- A town in the Shire of Pyrenees, central western Victoria, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈboʊfəɹt/
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Captain Beaufort says I shall be upon the Boards, and then it will only cost me like other officers.
But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
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That of Cardinal Beaufort is in a style more free and of more taste than any thing I have seen of the kind.
Hearing of the advance of Beaufort, he dispatched Tarleton in quest of him, with a select body of infantry and cavalry, in all, seven hundred men.
I find the average velocity of the wind for that day to have been forty-five miles per hour, corresponding to a "strong gale" on the Beaufort scale.