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[corfe Erroneously inferred, with the sense ‘a gap between hills’, from at Corfᵹeate (F; Latin Porta Corf), æt Corfes ᵹeate (E) of O.E. Chron. an. 978, lit. ‘at Corf's gate’, the cleft in the chalk hills which was the site of the later Corfe Castle.
1882Cornhill Mag. July 90 The great square castle that stands in the gap or ‘corfe’ from which it takes its name. 1883Good Words July 464/1 That most lovely of all English ruins, Corfe Castle; the castle of the gap or corfe between the hills. ] |