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Big Bend   /bɪg bɛnd/   Listen
Big Bend

noun
1.
A triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande.



Related search:
Big Bend National Park


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"Big Bend" Quotes from Famous Books



... S. a Creek of about 10 yards wide Coms in passing thro a plain in which great quantities of the Prickley Pear grows. I call this Creek Prickley Pear Creek, This Isld. is Called the lower Island it is Situated at the Commencement of what is Called & Known by the Grand de Tortu or Big Bend of the Missourie. ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... vision broadened. As the vessel swung into the long turn that leads round the first big bend, he glanced back and caught the wide white line of foam below the spidery bridge. As he gazed the wooded ground to the north of the rapids seemed to be covered with great stone buildings whose walls lifted like mystic battlements in the green wilderness. He saw railways ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan


Words linked to "Big Bend" :   geographical region, geographic region, geographical area, Texas, TX, Lone-Star State, geographic area, Big Bend National Park


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