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New Orleans
/ˈn(j)uː ɔɹˈliːnz/
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What does New Orleans mean?
proper noun
- The largest city in Louisiana, United States and the parish seat of Orleans Parish, which is coterminous with the city.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈn(j)uː ɔɹˈliːnz/
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/n(j)uː ˈɔɹliːnz//ˌnuː ˈɔɹ.li.ənz//ˌnuː ˈɔɹ.lɛ.ənz//ˈnɔɹlənz//ˈnɔːlənz/
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The young physician had been in New Orleans but a very few weeks, and had seen but little of slavery.
Again he threw up his steady work and, with a couple of sanguine young friends, made his way to New Orleans.
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Who the Johnsons were she does not know, but she feels sure of the fact that she was born in New Orleans.
From Baltimore the air was carried south, and was played by one of the regimental bands at the battle of New Orleans.
A few weeks later, his relatives, who had remained at New Orleans, learned that he had died of the fever of the country.