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Bulawayo

[boo-luh-wey-yoh, -wah-]
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noun
  1. a city in SW Zimbabwe: mining center.
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  • Bulawayo is distant from Fort Salisbury two hundred and eighty miles.

  • When I should have done so to their satisfaction, I should be permitted to proceed to Bulawayo.

  • After three days they returned to Bulawayo, and found their pilot impatient to be off.

    The Rhodesian

    Gertrude Page

  • The grave is about twenty-eight miles from Bulawayo, in the heart of the Matopo Hills.

    An African Adventure

    Isaac F. Marcosson

  • Every one goes in his shirtsleeves, and derby hats are not sold in Bulawayo.

British Dictionary definitions for bulawayo

Bulawayo

noun
  1. a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
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