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Port Royal
noun
- a village in southern South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.
- a historic town on southeastern Jamaica at the entrance to Kingston harbor: a former capital of Jamaica.
- former name of Annapolis Royal.
Port Royal
noun
- a fortified town in SE Jamaica, at the entrance to Kingston harbour: capital of Jamaica in colonial times
- the former name (until 1710) of Annapolis Royal
- pɔr rwajal an educational institution about 27 km (17 miles) west of Paris that flourished from 1638 to 1704, when it was suppressed by papal bull as it had become a centre of Jansenism. Its teachers were noted esp for their work on linguistics: their Grammaire générale et raisonnée exercised much influence
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The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.
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In this Isthmus is port royal, where we are now sojourning, lying on the parallel of 44 40'.
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And indeed such is about all we are accomplishing, even here at Port Royal, until we have learned the language.
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Et au partir de l tira ledit Sieur au Port Royal lieu de son habitation.
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And, leaving there, the Sieur sailed for Port Royal, the place of his residence.
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