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Victoria Falls   /vɪktˈɔriə fɔlz/   Listen
Victoria Falls

noun
1.
A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally.  Synonym: Victoria.
2.
A large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil.  Synonyms: Iguassu, Iguassu Falls, Iguazu, Iguazu Falls.






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"Victoria Falls" Quotes from Famous Books



... pieces of fossil-wood among them. The gullies reveal a stratum of this well-rounded shingle, lying on a soft greenish sandstone, which again lies on the coarse sandstone first observed. This formation is identical with that observed formerly below the Victoria Falls. We have the mountains still on our north and north-west (the so-called mountains of Bisa, or Babisa), and from them the Nyamazi flows, while Pamazi comes round the end, or what appears to be the end, of the higher portion. (22nd December, ...
— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 • David Livingstone

... scene, an amplitude of the luxuries they were used to, and tired of. Then, dogged by a diet befitting that state to which it had pleased Providence to call them, they rode the Great North Road for some days in a northern express. Vine said that the Victoria Falls were all right, but that their surroundings were, many of them, perversely wrong. It was so very stale, the hotel business, with the moonlight river excursions and the Livingstone trips, far too ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps



Words linked to "Victoria Falls" :   Argentina, Brasil, waterfall, Republic of Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, brazil, Rhodesia, Zambezi River, Zambia, Argentine Republic, Zimbabwe, Federative Republic of Brazil, Iguazu Falls, Zambezi, falls, Republic of Zambia, Iguassu Falls



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