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Browns·ville (bro̵unzvil)

city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000

Etymology: after Fort Brown, named for Major J. Brown, killed in defending it (1846)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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