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City of Brotherly Love

noun

The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania. Synonym: Philadelphia.

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"City of Brotherly Love" Quotes from Famous Books

... through Florence, of a serious riot at Filadelfia, in Italy, a tourist from Penn's city of brotherly love understood it to be that Col. TOM FLORENCE was seriously hurt in a riot at Philadelphia! I telegraphed for him, to my old friend the Colonel, and learned, with satisfaction, that not a hair of TOM'S head ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 • Various

... made up a little theater party for a classmate who had just married a Philadelphia girl. With memories of Ben Franklin, William Penn, Liberty Bell, and all the grand old characters of the City of brotherly Love, I looked forward eagerly to ...

— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown

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