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banana belt

British

noun

informal a region with a warm climate, esp one in Canada

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The captain announced the islands as Washington's "banana belt," free of the rain shadow cast by the Olympic Mountains.

From Joe Burke's Last Stand by Wetterau, John Moncure

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