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nahant

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What does nahant mean?

proper noun

  1. A town on a peninsula in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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The rocks were as large as those of Nahant or Newport, but, to my eye, more grand and broken.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
Bold Nahant was soon abeam, then Marblehead was put astern.
Joshua SlocumSailing Alone Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #6317
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We were now passing Nahant, and we should have seen Longfellow's cottage and the waves beating on the rocks before it, if we had been near enough.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2671
Desert and see them; and then he heard how the Philadelphia and New York people were getting in everywhere, and was given reason to regret the house at Nahant which he had urged to be sold.
William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas LaphamProject Gutenberg ebook #154