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Tenerife

noun

A Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands.

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"Tenerife" Quotes from Famous Books

... sent to command a small place where he had to be inactive. He prepared an expedition against the city of Tenerife, considered one of the strongest in Nueva Granada and which prevented the free navigation of the Magdalena River. He left with only 400 men and seized the castle abandoned by the garrison, thus ...

— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... her remaining consort the John Baptist, set sail in the prosecution of their voyage with a prosperous gale, the Minion having both brigantines at her stern. The 4th of November they had sight of Madeira, and the 6th of Tenerife, which they thought to have been grand Canary, as they reckoned themselves to the east of Tenerife, but were not. The Minion and her consort, being 3 or 4 leagues a head of the ships of Mr Hawkins, kept the course for ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr

Words linked to "Tenerife" : Atlantic, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean, island, Canaries