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archangel
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Robinson Crusoe
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- As I was bound to England, I now behoved either to go with the caravan to Jerosaw, from thence west to Marva, and the gulph of Finland, and so by land or sea to Denmark; or else I must leave the caravan at a little town on the Dwina, and so to Archangel, where I was certain of shipping either to England, Holland, or Hamburgh.†
archangel = angel of high rank
- (which I sold at Archangel at a good price) we set out from this city the beginning of June, making a small caravan, being about thirty-two horses and camels, of which I represented the head†
- In five days after we came to Veuslima, upon the river Witzedga; from thence we came to Lawrenskoy, on the third of July, where, providing ourselves with two luggage boats, and a convenient bark, we embarked the seventh, and arrived at Archangel the eighteenth, after a year, five months, and three days journey, including the eight months and odd days at Tobolski.†
- We came from Archangel the 20th of August in the same year, and arrived at Hamburg the 30th of September.†
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Definitions:
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(archangel) an angel of high rank
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, archangel can refer to an herb, a last name, or a city in Russia.