Vallejo

[ vuh-ley-oh, -hoh; Spanish vah-ye-haw ]

noun

1. Cé·sar [se, -sah, r], 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
2. Ma·ri·a·no Gua·da·lupe [mahr-ee-, ah, -noh gwahd-l-, oop, -, oo, -pee, mar-, mah-, ryah, -naw gwah-, th, ah-, loo, -pe], 1808–90, military and political leader in California, serving the Mexican government until 1846; elected senator to the first state legislature 1849.
3. a city in western California, on San Pablo Bay, northeast of San Francisco.

Vallejo

/ -ˈleɪhəʊ; baˈʎɛxo; vəˈleɪəʊ /

noun

1. VallejoCésar (Abraham)18921938MPeruvianWRITING: poet César ( Abraham ) (ˈsesar). 1892–1938, Peruvian poet, living in France and Spain from 1923: noted for his experimental style in such works as Trilce (1922)

Example Sentences

National GOP groups are trying to paint Vallejo as a radical.

From FiveThirtyEight

A privacy advocacy group sued the city of Vallejo after the city approved the purchase of a $766,000 cell site simulator in March 2020 without adopting a use policy.

From ProPublica

The selected journalists — Laurence Du Sault of Open Vallejo, Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media and Nuala Bishari of the San Francisco Public Press — will begin on April 1 and continue for one year.

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These men captured the place and sent Vallejo and three other prisoners back to Fremont's camp.

From Project Gutenberg

Vallejo, set free when the short-lived "bear-flag republic" went to pieces, lived many years at Sonoma.

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It was a simple open square, around which were some adobe-houses, that of General Vallejo occupying one side.

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The Vallejo boat, looking like a rocking horse, goes importantly chugging off toward Mare Island.

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That government, in order to have peace in the province, confirmed Alvarado and Vallejo in their positions.

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