Teresina

American  

[ti-ri-zee-nah] / tɪ rɪˈzi nɑ /

noun

1. a port in northeastern Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.

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Teresina British  

/ tereˈzina /

noun

1. Former name: Therezina.  an inland port in NE Brazil, capital of Piauí state, on the Parnaíba River: chief commercial centre of the Parnaíba valley. Pop: 895 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

And then there’s Teresina Vasco, who died in 1913 at age 2.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2018

Golfo, with his skull head, is clearly a figure of death, and the drowned Teresina is more arrestingly dramatized as being on the cusp between death and life.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2011

He also cut out a religious reference; when Gennaro cannot find Teresina in a storm, a monk intervenes.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2011

Kibitzer In Milan, Italy, Paolo Motta and his bride, Teresina, retired on their wedding night.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the small group of people waiting on the dock at Fort Mason, there’s only one woman who could be Teresina Capone.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko