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Pelew

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Pe·lew  (p-l, p-)
See Palau.
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Noun1.Pelew - a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
Belau, Palau Islands, Palau
Palau, Republic of Palau, TT - a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States
Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world
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He was swayed in his formative years as a poet by the Christian Pacific adventurer Captain Wilson's account of "The Interesting and Affecting History of Prince Lee Boo," a native of the Pelew Islands, as related by Keate.
Captain Cook's voyages and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Strongman, Luke / Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
A new term in geography, used to designate a great number of isles in the Pacific ocean, as the Pelew isles, the Ladrones, the Carolines, the Sandwich isles, the Marquesas, the Society isles and the Friendly isles.
Websterisms: in search of Noah's headwords by Schulman, Arthur / Word Ways
On the return journey the vessel was wrecked on Oroolong, one of the Pelew Islands east of Borneo.
Artists from afar: company painters in the princely courts of India ... by Greig, Charles / Marg, A Magazine of the Arts
 
 
 
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