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Port Elizabeth
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What does Port Elizabeth mean?
proper noun
- A city and port in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa, officially now named Gqeberha.
- A town on Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
- A census-designated place in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
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proper noun
- A port or bay on Gilford Island, British Columbia, Canada.
- A resettled community in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Perhaps she was coming from Port Elizabeth, from East London—who knows?
The wealthy English merchants of Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay) pay best.
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Everywhere, from Cape Town to Kimberley and from Kimberley to Port Elizabeth and East London, the towns were well populated with tamed blacks; tamed and Christianized too, I suppose, for they wore the dowdy clothes of our Christian civilization.
Ensor reports an interesting case occurring at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.