Border City

English

Proper noun

Border City

  1. A hamlet on the border of the city of Geneva, Ontario County, and the town of Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, United States; the name refers to the former Massachusetts-New York border.
  2. A nickname for Carlisle, Cumbria, England, a few miles south of the border with Scotland.
    • 1949 November and December, “"Royal Scots" at the Border City”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered, frontispiece:
      Rebuilt "Royal Scots" Nos. 46115, "Scots Guardsman" […] and 46105 "Cameron Highlander", at Carlisle Citadel Station, in April, 1949
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