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Port-of-Spain

[ pawrt-uhv-speyn, pohrt- ]

noun

  1. a seaport on NW Trinidad, in the SE West Indies: the national capital of Trinidad and Tobago.


Port of Spain

noun

  1. the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, on the W coast of Trinidad. Pop: 56 000 (2005 est)


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Port-of-Spain, whose population is about 50,000, rejoices in quite a number of large and handsome public buildings and churches.

On returning to the Port-of-Spain, the steamer usually carried about two hundred head of cattle for the Trinidad market.

Over unruffled water the lights of Port-of-Spain shoot long still yellow beams.

Out of 136 children born in Port-of-Spain, 100 were illegitimate.

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