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Wiktionary

  1. n. informal Nickname of the city of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Etymologies

  1. The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “ They flew from the southern edge of the Emerald City and headed straight out across Restwater, keeping east of the isthmus between the lakes.”

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  • “In the Emerald City you could see Quadling families from time to time.”

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  • “Despite its steep, aggrieved gables and pinched outbuildings, despite its battlement defenses, nothing — not even the Emerald City — could seem more welcome a sight just then.”

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  • “They chose Shiz Gate because the welfare of the Emerald City and the northern province of Gillikin were the most tightly entwined, and the traffic there the heaviest.”

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  • “The Emerald City Home Guard was better fed than the poor under the bridges, that much was obvious.”

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  • “Above, armed members of the Emerald City Guard were having a smoke around a brazier.”

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  • “ He supposed it came down to this: The Emerald City was no longer the capital of Oz. Itwas Oz. It survived for the sole purpose of insuring its own survival.”

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  • “Hatless, in civilian clothes, they meandered westward, the gleaming profile of the Emerald City always at their left shoulders.”

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  • “No, no, nothing so exciting — only a boring public works project, building a dam across one of the vales of the Scalps, to create a reservoir deep enough to supply the Emerald City and decrease its dependence on foreign water.”

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  • “The convoy marched in formation through the smell of sweet morning loaves, as Emerald City shopkeepers were unshuttering their windows and washing down the paving stones.”

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