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Dias   /dˈaɪəz/   Listen
Dias

noun
1.
Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).  Synonyms: Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomeu Diaz, Diaz.






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"Dias" Quotes from Famous Books



... arrival of Almagro in Chili, one of his captains named Ruy Dias came to him with a reinforcement of a hundred men, and informed him that all the natives of Peru had revolted and had massacred most of the Spaniards in that country. Almagro was much grieved at this intelligence, and resolved immediately to return, that ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... building is a long irregular row, similar to text reads "similiar" All the Tusayan kivas are in the form of a parallelogram text reads "paralellogram" the second level of the kiva floor, forming the dais before referred to The ledge, or dais, is free for the use of spectators text reads "dias" both times, but is spelled "dais" on its first occurrence (earlier in text) these overhanging copings occur principally on the southern exposures text reads "pricipally" particularly prevalent in Zuni text reads "particulary" Chapters II and ...
— Eighth Annual Report • Various

... world and such nonsense as love and romance are not for us. Go to bed at once and tie a stocking round your throat that you have not a frog in it tomorrow morning when you sing 'Glory be to God on High.' Buen Dias!" ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various



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