Definitions
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Is New South Wales a part of what the Dutch call New Holland, two thousand miles west of it?
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Is New South Wales a part of what the Dutch call New Holland, two thousand miles west of it?
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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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