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Tenerife

noun

A Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands.

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"Tenerife" Quotes from Famous Books

... Minor, the island patron, rises a huge white pile, or rather piles, the Lazaretto, with its three-arched bridge spanning the Wady Goncalo Ayres. The fears of the people forbid its being used, although separated from them by a mile of open space. This over-caution at Madeira, as at Tenerife, often causes great inconvenience to foreign residents; moreover, it is directly opposed to treaty. There is a neat group, meat-market, abattoir, and fish-market—where there is ne'er a flat fish save those who buy—near those dreariest of academic groves, the Praca Academica, at the east end proper, ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Tenerife" : Atlantic, Canary Islands, Canaries, Atlantic Ocean, island