Both Uses of
Cape Cod
in
Moby Dick
- I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†
Chpt 16-18
- He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man.†
Chpt 25-27 *
Definition:
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(Cape Cod) a peninsula of the Massachusetts Bay (south of Boston) extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area