The harbour wall known as "The Cobb", in the English town of Lyme Regis, features in which pair of novels?

Correct answer: "Persuasion" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman"

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luckycatfay
luckycatfay
Jay-L-C, could be but it could also be short for cobble stones we shorten every thing.
Jay-L-C
Jay-L-C
The word 'Cobb' may derive it's origins in 'Old English', and 'Middle English'; as comparable to the word 'cob' (equating approximately to having the meaning of 'head', or 'top'—as in 'cobnut'—or of the male sex form 'varient' of the avian species known colloquially as a 'swan'); or presumably so.