bosporus

Latin

bosporus

1. (archaic) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
   • 1867, The new American cyclopaedia, volume 5, page 53:

     It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer […]

• Cimerrian Bosporus (=Kerch Strait)

• “bosporus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.