Timbuctoo

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Dated form of Timbuktu. alt-of, dated

    "This national feeling is never more evinced than on the Continent: they herd together after their kind, and Englishman meets Englishman as if they encountered in the deserts round Timbuctoo."

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"This national feeling is never more evinced than on the Continent: they herd together after their kind, and Englishman meets Englishman as if they encountered in the deserts round Timbuctoo."

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