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Laredo   /lərˈeɪdoʊ/   Listen
Laredo

noun
1.
A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.






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"Laredo" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary, the towns are much more numerous and important. Corpus Christi, in the county of Nueces, and all the cities situated on the Rio Bravo, Laredo, Comalites, San Ignacio on the Web, Rio Grande City on the Starr, Edinburgh in the Hidalgo, Santa Rita, Elpanda, Brownsville in the Cameron, formed an imposing league against the pretensions of Florida. So, scarcely was the decision known, when the Texan and Floridan ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne

... began in Laredo. It was the Llano Kid's fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to Mexicans. But the Kid was past twenty; and to have only Mexicans to one's credit at twenty is to blush unseen on ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... the eastward of Saltillo, and eight hundred miles, more or less, from the national capital, on the line of the Mexican International Railroad, which crosses the Rio Grande at Laredo, is the city of Monterey,—"King Mountain,"—capital of the State of Nuevo Leon. It is eighteen hundred feet above the sea and contains nearly twenty thousand inhabitants. It was founded three hundred years ago, and its history is especially blended with that of the Roman ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

... Monte Sion, by a Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Laredo (Reforma, vol. i. lib. i. ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila



Words linked to "Laredo" :   Lone-Star State, metropolis, Texas, TX, city, point of entry, port of entry, urban center



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