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Platts·burgh (plats′bʉrg)

city in NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain: scene of a British invasion (1814) repulsed by the U.S.: pop. 19,000

Etymology: after Z. Platt, early settler, c. 1784

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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