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Fretum

Fretum \Fre"tum\, n.; pl. Freta. [L.] A strait, or arm of the sea.

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fretum

n. strait; channel.

Usage examples of "fretum".

After some time spent in these parts, he builds the city Hecatompulos, said before to have been built by Osiris: and then traverses the whole of Africa westward, till he arrives at the Fretum Gaditanum.