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  • proper noun A town in Hampshire, England

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Examples

  • She told him about the pictures that she had seen since he had been away, and about Millie who was in the A.T.S. at Bordon, and about the lovely time that she had had last summer in the holiday camp in the Isle of Wight, all on two pounds ten.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Mrs Crozier, living in Bordon, near Petersfield, Hants, said: We rang the MoD to tell them we were coming over and they gave us no advice other then to tell us to have a nice journey.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Dave 2008

  • Likewise, Christian Bale's portrayal of Bordon struck me as markedly less "stiff" than the guy I remember reading about ... but by the closing scene [:: mighty self-censorship to prevent spoilage::] he'd made a believer out of me.

    The Prestige matociquala 2006

  • Bordon, in turn also becomes fixated in an obsession of his own as they both race to become the greatest magician of all time.?

    The Prestige- Film Review 2006

  • Angier and his manager could have made a clone before that incident, just to make Bordon (or the twin) feel satisfied for revenge maybe of his twin brother and by that they would be even so Bordon (or the twin) can be with the little girl (i remember when Angier's manager made a visit on his home and said that the child needs her father).

    REVIEW: The Prestige by Christopher Priest 2006

  • Instead she was farmed out to family friends, Major Jeremy Whitaker, a photographer, and his wife Philippa who lived in Headley Bordon in Hampshire.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • So I went and worked with a family in Headley Bordon in Hampshire, Philippa and Jeremy Whitaker.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • Instead she was farmed out to family friends, Major Jeremy Whitaker, a photographer, and his wife Philippa who lived in Headley Bordon in Hampshire.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • So I went and worked with a family in Headley Bordon in Hampshire, Philippa and Jeremy Whitaker.

    DIANA ANDREW MORTON 1992

  • It was over Selborne, Bordon and Farnham that the helicopters now ceaselessly hummed and roared.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

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