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Musselburgh

Today it means: A town in East Lothian council area, Scotland; historically it was in Midlothian (OS grid ref NT3472). Full definition →

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From mussel (“shellfish”) + burgh.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.