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- proper noun obsolete The continent and the country of
Australia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Dutch especially evinced their enterprise in the pursuit of precise information about the southern Terra Incognita, and the nineteenth century was well within its second quarter before the name New Holland, which for over a hundred years had borne testimony to their adventurous pioneering, gave place in general and geographical literature to the more convenient and euphonious designation suggested by Flinders himself, Australia.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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But Banks was not favourable, and Arrowsmith, the chart-publisher, “did not like the change” because his firm had always used the name New Holland in their charts.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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Arrowsmith, the chart-publisher, "did not like the change" because his firm had always used the name New Holland in their charts.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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The Dutch especially evinced their enterprise in the pursuit of precise information about the southern Terra Incognita, and the nineteenth century was well within its second quarter before the name New Holland, which for over a hundred years had borne testimony to their adventurous pioneering, gave place in general and geographical literature to the more convenient and euphonious designation suggested by Flinders himself, Australia.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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They lived in New Holland, which is just east of here, but they also had roots in Brooklyn, New York, and Virginia.
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It is well known that it is the southern point of New Holland, which is by far the largest island in the world; indeed, so large an island, as almost to deserve the appellation of a continent.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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It is well known that it is the southern point of New Holland, which is by far the largest island in the world; indeed, so large an island, as almost to deserve the appellation of a continent.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Is New South Wales a part of what the Dutch call New Holland, two thousand miles west of it?
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Is New South Wales a part of what the Dutch call New Holland, two thousand miles west of it?
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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A sort of kino gum, an astringent resinous-like substance, is also extracted from _E. resinifera_, the brown gum-tree of New Holland, which is sold in the medicine bazaars of India.
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