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City sought by Raleigh
Answer for the clue "City sought by Raleigh ", 8 letters:
eldorado
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Word definitions for eldorado in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Spanish El Dorado "the golden one," name given 16c. to the country or city believed to lie in the heart of the Amazon jungle, from past participle of dorar "to gild," from Latin deaurare , from de- , here probably intensive, + aurare "to gild," ...
Usage examples of eldorado.
Perhaps some other, for enchanted cities and Eldorados were plentiful in those days in America, alternating with occasional empires, as that of Puytita, near the Laguna de los Xarayes, Manoa, and the Ciudad de los Cesares, supposed to be situated near Arauco in the Chilian Andes.
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Considering how poor the neighborhood was, there were a remarkable number of cars: junkers, aging Eldorado pimpmobiles, fancy SUVs with huge speakers tilting up from their rear beds.
Where the drovers and the shearers and the bushmen and the rest Never reach the Eldorado of the poets of the West.
You'll admit that Up-the Country, more especially in drought, Isn't quite the Eldorado that the poets rave about, Yet at times we long to gallop where the reckless bushman rides In the wake of startled brumbies that are flying for their hides.
And Tarot—who had started out life as James Carrow and was still known as Jim when not wearing his flameout stage makeup—wasn't about to lend his custom Eldorado to anybody, no matter how few cases of beer were left.
And Tarotwho had started out life as James Carrow and was still known as Jim when not wearing his flameout stage makeupwasn't about to lend his custom Eldorado to anybody, no matter how few cases of beer were left.
It was brought about by a conversation in the Eldorado Saloon, in which men waxed boastful of their favorite dogs.
The speedometer on the Eldorado was approaching sixty when Burton topped the last hill before the cattle guard.
The famous gold rushes of the Yukon and Eldorado, and the rich strikes at Eureka sounded off the first modern Gold Age.
The Chivas and the Snow White was the best By morning, the four-hundred dollars up front was exhausted and when they went back to the trucking terminal for more money, the honkey wasn't there, but Sweet Harold pulled up in his hog, a white Eldorado and he said their asses would be in New York City by that afternoon or their asses wouldn't be at all.
Eventually, Eldorado came to mean any imaginary place where easy riches could be found.
He was in full lout uniform: logoless baseball cap worn backward over a faux bowl haircut, nose ring, ten studs in each ear, T-shirt large enough to conceal a pregnancy, "shorts" long enough to conceal his calves and baggy enough to share with two friends, and sneakers that appeared to have been fashioned out of Cadillac Eldorado upholstery, dipped in Day-Glo paint, and inflated with helium.
It says the Eldorado Hotel, in Miami Beach, but I'm reachable there.
The neon spluttered, but it still spelled ELDORADO in misty rose letters.