- Cinque Ports (n.)
[Cinque Ports 词源字典]
- late 12c. (in Anglo-Latin), late 13c. (in English), from Latin quinque portus (see cinque + port (n.1)). Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, and Hythe, granted special privileges from the crown in return for defense of the Channel in the days before England had a navy.[Cinque Ports etymology, Cinque Ports origin, 英语词源]