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  • proper noun a steamship operated by the Cunard Line

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Examples

  • The ship will be the second largest "Cunarder" (as they call it) ever built.

    Cunard's Queen Elizabeth Ship Debuts In October (PHOTOS) 2010

  • The ship will be the second largest "Cunarder" (as they call it) ever built.

    Cunard's Queen Elizabeth Ship Debuts In October (PHOTOS) 2010

  • Pelham thought she was a "Cunarder," but Shuffles was confident she belonged to the Inman line; and it is quite certain neither of them had any opinion whatever in regard to her, except that she was going west; for the red light on her port side was visible.

    Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Oliver Optic 1859

  • Only once, since the line was started, has a "Cunarder" been kept in port by wind or weather -- this was the commander's first trip across the Atlantic since his promotion; you may guess which way the balance turned.

    Border and Bastille 1851

  • He shouted as he saw the stacks of a big Cunarder bulking up at the end of Fourteenth

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • I saw its early stage on my last visit to him; it represented an old shipwright pondering on the idle dockyard where lay the great skeleton of the Cunarder that was later to be known as the Queen Mary.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • At three months Mr. Bumby had crossed the North Atlantic on a twelve-day small Cunarder that sailed from New York via Halifax in January.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • At three months Mr. Bumby had crossed the North Atlantic on a twelve-day small Cunarder that sailed from New York via Halifax in January.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • At three months Mr. Bumby had crossed the North Atlantic on a twelve-day small Cunarder that sailed from New York via Halifax in January.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • At three months Mr. Bumby had crossed the North Atlantic on a twelve-day small Cunarder that sailed from New York via Halifax in January.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

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