Bremerhaven
proper noun
- German city in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Wiktionary
name
- A city and seaport in Bremen, Germany.
“A black car […] ferried them north under low grey skies, through the pretty red-brick districts of Bremerhaven proper to the place that everyone in the shipping industry was actually talking about when they said the name of that city: a massive terminal between the city and the sea, not quite in Germany but not quite anywhere else, one of those liminal spaces that have proliferated on this earth.”