Poughkeepsie
//pəˈkɪpsi// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
"Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M."
Example
More examples"Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M."
Etymology
From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).
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