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incognita

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in·cog·ni·ta  (nkg-nt, n-kgn-t)
adv. & adj.
With one's identity disguised or concealed. Used of a woman.
n.
A woman or girl whose identity is disguised or concealed.

[Italian, feminine of incognito, incognito; see incognito.]


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But you must be a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery; like the Solomon islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.
The Rocky Mountains formed a vast barrier between them and the United States, and their stern and awful defiles, their rugged valleys, and the great western plains watered by their rivers, remained almost a terra incognita to the American trapper.
He had recognized by certain unmistakable signs, that his fair incognita belonged to the aristocracy.
 
 
 
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