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Constantinople
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Mrs. Dalloway
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- And then at Constantinople, and again and again.†
*Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
- He brushed surfaces; the dead languages, the living, life in Constantinople, Paris, Rome; riding, shooting, tennis, it had been once.†
- She had failed him, once at Constantinople; and Lady Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(Constantinople) capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)