Pensacola
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- a town in extreme northwest Florida
Word Origin
- Pensacola
- name of a Muskogean tribe, from Choctaw, literally "hair-people," from pashi "hair of the head" + oklah "people."
Example
- 1. Pensacola 's rich history has spawned a passion for the past .
- 2. Pensacola , its anchorage first admired by the spanish 450 years ago .
- 3. She was firm in her belief that all her neighbors , now in shelters in lafayette , houston , pensacola , god knows where , were the lost ones .
- 4. We 're aboard yelverton 's 21-foot outboard motorboat near the mouth of pensacola bay , in search of redfish and false-albacore .
- 5. Pensacola boasts a surprisingly little-known past : it is the site of the nation 's oldest european settlement .