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colonial 1. characteristic of or relating to the 13 British colonies that became the United States of America (1776) 2. of or relating to the colonies of the British Empire 3. denoting, relating to, or having the style of Neoclassical architecture used in the British colonies in America in the 17th and 18th centuries 4. of or relating to the period of Australian history before Federation (1901) 5. (of organisms such as corals and bryozoans) existing as a colony of polyps 6. (of animals and plants) having become established in a community in a new environment How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative. Among those of his relations who professed the modern faith of heredity it was well understood that in him the character of the late Myron Bayne, a maternal great-grandfather, had revisited the glimpses of the moon--by which orb Bayne had in his lifetime been sufficiently affected to be a poet of no small Colonial distinction. Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast. |
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