Pescadores

[ pes-kuh-dawr-is, -eez, -dohr- ]

noun
  1. (used with a plural verb) Penghu.

  • Also called Pescadores Islands.

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How to use Pescadores in a sentence

  • She is proceeding to fortify the Bonin Islands and the Pescadores.

    The Pacific Triangle | Sydney Greenbie
  • As the Pescadores slowly scull their boats down the river, they sing strange Andalusian melodies, with a kind of ydel.

    The Story of Seville | Walter M. Gallichan
  • For thirty-eight years this island had been dominated by the Dutch, whose fortresses commanded the channel of the Pescadores.

    A History of the Philippines | David P. Barrows
  • The more so, as the Pescadores islands, half-way between, are within sight of the mainland.

  • Como estamos Capitan, que hay de nuevo; hay algo de bueno, para los pobres Pescadores?

    Tom Cringle's Log | Michael Scott

British Dictionary definitions for Pescadores

Pescadores

/ (ˌpɛskəˈdɔːrɪz) /


pl n
  1. a group of 64 islands in Formosa Strait, separated from Taiwan (to which it belongs) by the Pescadores Channel. Pop: 91 950 (2007 est). Area: 127 sq km (49 sq miles): Chinese names: Penghu, P'eng-hu

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