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cape

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cape
a headland or promontory

Cape the
1. the SW region of South Africa, in Western Cape province

cape [kāp]
(geography)
A prominent point of land jutting into a body of water. Also known as head; headland; mull; naze; ness; point; promontory.


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He might have carried him round by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
The members of the Cape Pleasant Club were easygoing refugees from other and more exacting clubs, men who pottered rather than raced round the links; men, in short, who had grown tired of having to stop their game and stand aside in order to allow perspiring experts to whiz past them.
She got up to rouse herself, and slipped off her plaid and the cape of her warm dress.
 
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