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Massaua

American  
[muh-sah-wuh] / məˈsɑ wə /
Or Massawa

noun

  1. a seaport in E Eritrea, in N Ethiopia, on the Red Sea.


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A U.S. naval officer, taking a breather in Cairo last week, perspired comfortably and wished that the Italians could see what had happened at the Red Sea port of Massaua.

From Time Magazine Archive

This town, 2,000 feet up on the Eritrean plateau, is strategically placed at the junction of a railway to Massaua on the Red Sea and a new highway to Addis Ababa.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is Massaua, port city in the Italian colony of Eritrea, as described today by one of the first men to reach Djibouti from Massaua, in several weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Italian seamen had boasted that they did a thorough job of destruction when they scuttled or burned or smashed everything useful in Massaua harbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pearl-fishers at Yemen and Massaua asserted that there was no coral near the pearl-banks at nine fathoms depth, but only sand.

From Coral Reefs by Charles Darwin

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