Mafeking
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Mafeking was lost during the attempted salvage operation.
From BBC ● May 1, 2016
During 217 days of siege, the dispatches from Mafeking were masterpieces of jocose understatement.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the printing and issuance, in Mafeking, of a special pair of "siege stamps" which were notable as being among the first, if not the first, examples of postage stamps printed by photographic reproduction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell, authority on pig-sticking and defender of Mafeking, designed the uniforms of the Boy Scouts.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Sometimes,” said the King, “I wish you had been born forwards like other people. What with Victorians and Mafeking Night...”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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