Meanings
proper noun
- An island of North Carolina, United States.
"I get homesick for the way this town used to be," says Mrs. Spencer, who remembers Ocracoke before tourists began swelling its summertime population.
1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 497
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