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truro
/ˈtɹuɹoʊ/
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What does truro mean?
proper noun
- A city and civil parish with a city council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8244).
- The Cornish constituency which existed from 1295 to 1997 and encompassed the city.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Knox County, Illinois.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- A minor city in Madison County, Iowa.
- A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
- A township in Franklin County, Ohio.
- A town in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A town in Mid Murray council area, South Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
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The chapel remained open for some days and nights, and from that point the new disorder spread itself, with the rapidity of lightning, over the neighbouring towns of Camborne, Helston, Truro, Penryn and Falmouth, as well as over the villages in the vicinity.
The firm had extended their operations far beyond the boundaries of the Dale: they had established foundries at London, Bristol, and Liverpool, and agencies at Newcastle and Truro for the disposal of steam-engines and other iron machinery used in the deep mines of those districts.
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By noon on Friday we came to New Glasgow, having passed through a country where wealth is to be won by hard digging if it is won at all; through Truro, at the head of the Cobequid Bay, a place exhibiting more thrift than any we have seen.
Out of this profession have sprung the peerages of Howard and Cavendish, the first peers of both families having been judges; those of Aylesford, Ellenborough, Guildford, Shaftesbury, Hardwicke, Cardigan, Clarendon, Camden, Ellesmere, Rosslyn; and others nearer our own day, such as Tenterden, Eldon, Brougham, Denman, Truro, Lyndhurst, St. Leonards, Cranworth, Campbell, and Chelmsford.