Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of Greece in the Ionian Islands off the northwest coast of the mainland. Settled c. 700 BC, the island was controlled by Rome, Byzantium, Sicily, Venice, and Great Britain before being ceded to Greece in 1864.
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- proper noun One of the
Ionian Islands ,Greece . The ancient name is Corcyra, in Modern GreekKérkira (Κέρκυρα ). - proper noun The capital of Corfu.
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Examples
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Perhaps there's more to the dinner with David Geffen in Corfu than we're being told ... perhaps their eyes met over the moussaka and ... zap!
UK govt proposes idiotic two-strikes-and-you're-out Internet copyright rule - Boing Boing 2009
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Mandelson once had ambitions of finishing off Osborne's career after an unfortunate episode on a Russian oligarch's yacht in Corfu in the summer of 2008.
George Osborne, the big beast of British politics, bestrides the stage Nicholas Watt 2010
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Perhaps there's more to the dinner with David Geffen in Corfu than we're being told ... perhaps their eyes met over the moussaka and ... zap!
UK govt proposes idiotic two-strikes-and-you're-out Internet copyright rule - Boing Boing 2009
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Sir, Since your paper - along with your sister publication The Sunday Times - has made much out of what may or may not have happened at a private gathering of my friends this summer in Corfu, I thought I should make the following observations.
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Sir, Since your paper - along with your sister publication The Sunday Times - has made much out of what may or may not have happened at a private gathering of my friends this summer in Corfu, I thought I should make the following observations.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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If true, given the Italian name, a plausible route is via the Venetian Jews to the Jews in Corfu and the significant Jewish population that used to exist in Thessaloniki.
Archive 2008-09-01 Laurie Constantino 2008
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The guest review this month is of Songs of Blue and Gold by Deborah Lawrence, set in Corfu and "an intelligent and perceptive study of the unreliability of biography as well as a moving story about love and loss .... gorgeous, but thoughtful, escapism."
December 2008 Maxine 2008
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The guest review this month is of Songs of Blue and Gold by Deborah Lawrence, set in Corfu and "an intelligent and perceptive study of the unreliability of biography as well as a moving story about love and loss .... gorgeous, but thoughtful, escapism."
Win Picador books in Bookgroup quiz Maxine 2008
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If true, given the Italian name, a plausible route is via the Venetian Jews to the Jews in Corfu and the significant Jewish population that used to exist in Thessaloniki.
Summer Tomatoes in Greece with Historical Information and Recipe for Strapatsada (Greek Scrambled Eggs and Tomatoes) (Στραπατσάδα) Laurie Constantino 2008
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He admitted he "made a mistake" by meeting Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska several times while on holiday in Corfu in the summer.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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