Roanoke Island en · PROPN
Etymology
From island + Powhatan rawrenock (“roanoke”, literally “things rubbed smooth by hand”)
Meanings
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An island of Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
"Still country and stubborn," says Betty Etheridge (right) describing her hometown of Wanchese, a small fishing village at the southern end of Roanoke Island.
1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 503: