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
The world's first Boy Scout, who won his original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense.
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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