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Spanish Town
/ˈspæn.ɪʃ ˈtäʊ̯n/
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What does Spanish Town mean?
proper noun
- A town, the parish capital of Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.
- A town on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.
- A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- A historical district of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈspæn.ɪʃ ˈtäʊ̯n/
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/ˈspæn.ɪʃ ˈtaʊn/
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Her wardrobe being destroyed in the earthquake, she took the train into Spanish Town in an endeavour to replenish it.
Not Wellington's veterans made cleaner work of a Spanish town; not Federals or Confederates were ever more impartial in the confiscation of neutral chickens.
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Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish aspect of a Spanish town.
“You will when you are out of the country: when you get back to Spanish Town, you may think of her as dead and buried—or rather, you need not think of her at all.”
Many years had elapsed since the events the letter narrated had transpired, and the old man had become a respected citizen of an obscure Spanish town, but the love of gold was still so strong upon him that he risked all to acquaint his son with the means of attaining fabulous wealth for them both.