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Pelew

noun
1.
A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.  Synonyms: Belau, Palau, Palau Islands.





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"Pelew" Quotes from Famous Books



... came out to us from an inner room. She was a native of one of the Pelew Islands, a tall, slenderly-built girl, with pale, olive skin and big, soft eyes. A flowing gown of yellow muslin—the favourite colour of the Portuguese-blooded natives of the Pelews—buttoned high up to ...
— By Reef and Palm • Louis Becke
... water, and the multitude of naked savages whom we had seen on the beach had no wreckage that night. We were soon out of danger; and though the wind was sometimes unsteady, we did not altogether lose it until after passing the Pelew Islands. ...
— A Retrospect • James Hudson Taylor


Words linked to "Pelew" :   Republic of Palau, pacific, Pacific Ocean, TT, Palau Islands, archipelago, Belau


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