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Definition of Acores
1. Noun. Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal. "The Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acores
Literary usage of Acores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1875)
"Colomb vivant à Madère et aux Acores et en rapport avec les aventuriers portugais,
n'ignorait certainement pas ces projets et ces tentatives. ..."
2. Examen critique de l'histoire de la géographie du nouveau continent et des by Alexander von Humboldt (1836)
"Cependant plus d'un siècle et demi après la colonisation des Acores par les
Portugais, on a continué à placer une île du Brasil à l'ouest ou au nord-ouest ..."
3. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels edited by Robert Kerr (1814)
"... also better wine than in any other island of the Acores. This island is about
fifteen leagues in circumference. Seventy leagues WNW from Tercera is the ..."
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