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Macao

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Macau:; A city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of Macau:; a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999 historical

    "It would be however a very acceptable thing if ſome curious Navigators would inform us, what tides or Currents are found at Macao, Quemoy, and other places on the Coast of China and on Formoſa ; it being moſt probable that this flood cometh out of the North Eaſt, alongſt the Coaſt of China, for that the Northerly Moonsoon is found to occaſion the higheſt ſpring-tides."

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of macaw (“parrot”). alt-of, obsolete

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