Cape Colony

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noun

the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa

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Words nearby Cape Colony

Cape Cod, Cape Cod Bay, Cape Cod Canal, Cape Cod lighter, cape collar, Cape Colony, Cape Colored, Cape Coloured, Cape Coral, Cape crawfish, Cape doctor

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How to use Cape Colony in a sentence

Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.
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Historically, the Puritans banned Christmas from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659.
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He was born in the country, which was a British colony called Northern Rhodesia at the time, but his parents were not.
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He has underpinned his future program by winning from NASA a 20-year lease on the legendary launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.
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Following a flawless journey from Cape Canaveral in Florida, it delivered more than two tons of much-needed supplies.
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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
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This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three hundred and fifty-one persons.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
At a quarter past seven he took his leave and we let drop our anchor where we were, off Cape Tekke.
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Soon after that, I wrote you in regard to the condition in which we found this infant Church and Colony.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various