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York·town (yôrk′to̵un′)

town in SE Va.: scene of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington (1781)

Etymology: after the Duke of York, later Charles I

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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