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Definition of Cape passero

1. Noun. A cape that forms the southeastern corner of the island of Sicily.

2. Noun. A naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Passero

Cape Cod Bay Cape Cod Canal Cape Cod and the Islands Cape Codder Cape Codders Cape Colony Cape Fear Cape Fear River Cape Flattery Cape Girardeau

Cape Hatteras Cape Horn Cape Kennedy Cape May Cape May warbler Cape Province Cape Sable Cape Town Cape Trafalgar Cape Verde

Cape Verde Islands Cape Verde escudo Cape Verde monetary unit Cape Verdean Cape Verdean Creole Cape Verdeans Cape York Cape York Peninsula Cape buffalo

Literary usage of Cape passero

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1832)
"The same formation extends the whole way to the village of Pachino, a few miles from cape passero, where I found a few shells, and among others a small ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1832)
"The same formation extends the whole way to the village of Pachino, a few miles from cape passero, where I found a few shells, and among others a small ..."

3. An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and by William Fordyce Mavor (1803)
"... they were in digger of being overset, aud ran for shelter to cape passero. cape passero, anciently ..."

4. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1891)
"A long bend of the coast, broken by a few smaller points, a few smaller or shallower bays, may be held to stretch from cape passero to the southern ..."

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