Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bosporus

Bosporus (bos"po*rus) , noun

[Latin]

A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.