Timbuctoo

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English

Proper noun

Timbuctoo

  1. Dated form of Timbuktu.
    • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, page 270:
      This national feeling is never more evinced than on the Continent: they herd together after their kind, and Englishman meets Englishman as if they encountered in the deserts round Timbuctoo.
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