Thousand Island

English

Proper noun

Thousand Island

  1. Attributive form of Thousand Islands.
    • 2006, Tanya Huff, “It’s All in the Numbers”, in Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time (Smart Pop), Dallas, Tex.: BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 219:
      For reasons I can no longer remember but I’m sure made sense at the time, we left home at one a.m. and arrived at the Canada/U.S. Thousand Island border crossing at five a.m.
    • 2011 March 30 – April 12, Nick Altschuller, “Nick and Choose: Cattle Call”, in Andrew Rimas, editor, The Improper Bostonian, Boston, Mass.: Improper Publications, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
      The one distinguishing factor, the house spread, was dolloped in a nearly undetectable amount, but I assume it represents one of the atolls on the Thousand Island archipelago.
    • 2017, Brenda Chapman, chapter 27, in Shallow End (A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery; 4), Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, →ISBN, page 301:
      Jane was taking her kids across the border into New York State at the Thousand Island border crossing.

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