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Faroes

noun

A self-governing colony that is a possession of Denmark in the Faroe Islands. Synonyms: Faeroe Islands, Faeroes, Faroe Islands.

A group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands. Synonyms: Faeroe Islands, Faeroes, Faroe Islands.

Faro

noun

A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.

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... starved and fever-stricken men, trailed into the Biscay ports of Spain. Torn by September gales, the rest of the Armada had been sunk or stranded on the rough coasts of Scotland and Ireland. "The wreckers of the Orkneys and the Faroes, the clansmen of the Scottish isles, the kernes of Donegal and Galway, all had their part in the work of murder and robbery. Eight thousand Spaniards perished between the Giant's Causeway and the Blaskets. On a strand near ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... the sea. Volcanoes broke forth in central France and southern Germany, in Hungary and the Carpathians. Innumerable fissures opened in the crust from the north of Ireland and the western islands of Scotland to the Faroes, Iceland, and even to arctic Greenland; and here great plateaus were built of flows of basalt similar to that of the Columbia River. In India, at the opening of the Tertiary, there had been an outwelling of basalt, flooding to a depth of thousands of feet two hundred thousand square miles ...

— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton