Gaberones

/ ˌɡæbəˈrəʊnɛs /

noun

1. the former name for Gaborone

Example Sentences

Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones.

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In the east, near Francistown, Serowe and the tiny, torrid new capital of Gaberones, rainfall permits some crops, mostly maize, sorghum, cowpeas, pumpkins and tobacco.

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In the middle of January, 1900, he reached Gaberones.

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For a long time Gaberones, which is eighty miles north of Mafeking, remained his headquarters, and thence he kept up precarious communications with the besieged garrison.

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In the middle of March he advanced as far south as Lobatsi, which is less than fifty miles from Mafeking; but the enemy proved to be too strong, and Plumer had to drop back again with some loss to his original position at Gaberones.

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