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Jaffa

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Jaf·fa  (jf, yäf)
See Yafo.
Jaffa [ˈdʒæfə ˈdʒɑː-]
n
1. (Placename) a port in W Israel, on the Mediterranean: incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950; an old Canaanite city Biblical name Joppa Hebrew name Yafo
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a large variety of orange, having a thick skin
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Noun1.JaffaJaffa - a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950
Joppa, Yafo
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yalo - the largest city and financial center of Israel; located in western Israel on the Mediterranean


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And let no man doubt this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast skeleton of a whale, which the city's legends and all the inhabitants asserted to be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
"One must admit," continued Prince Andrew, "that Napoleon as a man was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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