port of call
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]port of call (plural ports of call)
- (nautical) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies
- (figuratively) A place visited.
- 2002, Phil Cousineau, Robert A Johnson, Coincidence Or Destiny?: Stories of Synchronicity That Illuminate Our Lives:
- My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]any port being visited by a ship
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