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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

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

He rents a house in Dumaguete, a coastal town on the Philippine island of Negros, where an active volcano leaks steam into the tropical sky.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2012

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

If possible the people of Misamis dance faster and hop higher than the people of Dumaguete, and how the women manage to keep on their chinelas during these wild gyrations is quite beyond me.

From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball

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