'Baron of the Cinque Ports' definitions:
Definition of 'Baron of the Cinque Ports'
From: GCIDE
- Cinque Ports \Cinque" Ports`\ [Cinque + port.] (Eng. Hist.) Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. [1913 Webster]
- Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron. [1913 Webster]