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docks

/dɒks/ noun B2
  1. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices
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Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocée docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1 · C1
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 17 · C1
Exactly sixty years ago, I stood on the deck of a colossal ocean liner, watching the gray docks of Southampton recede into an impenetrable fog.
The Malleability of Home, p. 1 · C2

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