Buda-pest

name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of Budapest. alt-of, archaic

    "A man with a much more horrid name, which I can’t venture to reproduce from memory, wrote to me yesterday asking permission to translate my recent “Herbert Spencer Lecture” into Hungarian, for his Sociological Review, of which he enclosed a prospectus. They do these things well in Buda-Pest."

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"A man with a much more horrid name, which I can’t venture to reproduce from memory, wrote to me yesterday asking permission to translate my recent “Herbert Spencer Lecture” into Hungarian, for his Sociological Review, of which he enclosed a prospectus. They do these things well in Buda-Pest."

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