Lexic.us

Definition of Blantyre

1. Noun. City in southern Malawi; largest city and commercial center of Malawi.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blantyre

Literary usage of Blantyre

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

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"I LEFT Blantyre on the 12th of July, and reached this place near ... On leaving Blantyre our path lay past the Scotch Mission station, then by a road to the ..."

2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"PARISH OF Blantyre. PRESBYTERY OF HAMILTON, SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR. THE REV. ... The breadth is very variable : the narrowest part at Blantyre Craig, ..."

3. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"Blantyre, a parish of NW Lanarkshire, containing the villages of Blantyre, ... Blantyre village, called also High Blantyre or Kirkton of Blantyre, ..."

4. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1894)
"All goods for Blantyre or for the regions beyond have to be carried by porters, ... Not only is the neighbourhood of Blantyre itself producing large ..."

5. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1881)
"... be the towne to the Lord Blantyre be sent eist with the dean of gild and dekin ... in the townes handis, and the said Lord Blantyre ..."

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