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dunkirk

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the English spelling of Dunkerque, a port town in northeast France, from where thousands of British soldiers were evacuated (= moved to safety) during the Second World War:

Examples:

You can get a ferry from Dover to Dunkirk.
The tunnels were the nerve centre of the operation to evacuate troops from Dunkirk in 1940.

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