Parañaque

American  

[par-uhnyah-key, -kee, pah-rahnyah-ke] / ˌpærˈənjɑ keɪ, -ki, ˌpɑˈrɑnjɑ kɛ /

noun

1. a city on Luzon, in the N Philippines, on the S of Manila Bay.

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Parañaque

At the Redemptorist Church in Parañaque City, near Manila, church workers have installed a prominent exhibit of images from the drug war in an effort to raise awareness of its human cost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2016

They also intend to encamp over here at Parañaque.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Dean C. Worcester

The same seems to me to be true of Cavite and Parañaque, of which the priest whom I have there shall have charge.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

From there Lachambre with his staff rode over to Parañaque, and reported himself to the Captain-General Polavieja.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Returning to Manila in 1598, he became first definitor in 1599, and presided at the provincial chapter in 1602; and labored at Parañaque in 1603, and Tondo in 1605, dying that same year.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson