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Dumaguete

American  
[doo-mah-ge-te] / ˌdu mɑˈgɛ tɛ /

noun

  1. a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.


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When Pfeiffer was 10, his parents took over the music program at Silliman University, a Presbyterian school in Dumaguete, the Philippines.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024

Ride past Dumaguete Harbor, where a cargo ship lies half-sunk in the shallows, through crowded, diesel-scented streets lined with Internet cafés, car-repair shacks, fruit stands, chickens and goats.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2012

To get to their rental home from Dumaguete airport, you hire a Philippine tricycle, which is basically a motorcycle pulling a rickshaw.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2012

Still it gets lonely in Dumaguete, 7,400 miles and nine time zones west of PGA West and 5,000 miles west of Honolulu's Waialae Country Club, another course he played with his father.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2012

Several weeks later the residents of Dumaguete were thrown into intense if subdued excitement by the news that the Gobernadorcillo was dead.

From Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Kayme, Sargent

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