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City of Brotherly Love en · PROPN

Etymology

See etymology at Philadelphia.

Meanings

1. (poetic) Nickname for Philadelphia: a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.
   • When General Grant started on his tour around the world, the City of Brotherly Love was selected as the point of departure, and thence he set sail for Europe with the benisons of the sturdy burghers of the Quaker City. 1879 December 21, “[Ulysses S.] Grant in Philadelphia”, in Norfolk Virginian, volume XXIX, number 24, Norfolk, Va., →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
   • Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population. 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

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