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El Dorado
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What does El Dorado mean?
proper noun
- A Muisca tribal chief who covered himself in gold dust.
- A legendary lost city of gold.
- Any place of fabulous wealth.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Union County, Arkansas, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Butler County, Kansas, United States.
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"Both varieties are common throughout the eastern end of El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada counties."
The name of Fortunate Islands was long in as vague signification, as that of El Dorado among the conquerors of America.
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“I--I just sold a claim I had up in El Dorado County,” he added.
And yet he was serious; he was fascinated by Newman’s plain prose version of the legend of El Dorado.
Candide was more rejoiced at the recovery of this one sheep than he had been grieved at the loss of the hundred laden with the large diamonds of El Dorado.