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Elsinore
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synonyms: Helsinger, Helsingør ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:The city in Denmark that is the setting for Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Hamlet: Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony:
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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The old ladies, and everyone else, sat quiet and motionless as the King strode, torn and troubled, back and forth across the dark room at Elsinore.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.360 (1948)
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of all the people I knew, had given me the impression of flat vulgarity which the view on entering the Danish port of Elsinore would give to any passionate admirer of Hamlet.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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