Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Thousand Island en · PROPN
Meanings
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(attributive, form-of) Attributive form of Thousand Islands.
Jane was taking her kids across the border into New York State at the Thousand Island border crossing.
2017, Brenda Chapman, chapter 27, in Shallow End (A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery; 4), Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, →ISBN, page 301:For reasons I can no longer remember but I’m sure made sense at the time, we left home at one a.m. and arrived at the Canada/U.S. Thousand Island border crossing at five a.m.
2006, Tanya Huff, “It’s All in the Numbers”, in Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time (Smart Pop), Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 219:The one distinguishing factor, the house spread, was dolloped in a nearly undetectable amount, but I assume it represents one of the atolls on the Thousand Island archipelago.
2011 March 30 – April 12, Nick Altschuller, “Nick and Choose: Cattle Call”, in Andrew Rimas, editor, The Improper Bostonian, Boston, Mass.: Improper Publications, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
Deriveds
Thousand Island dressing