Jacaranda City, noun phrase
- Origin:
- See quotation 1970.
A nickname given to the city of Pretoria.
1970 Beeton & Dorner in Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.1 No.2, 33Jacaranda, tropical Amer[ican] trees of the fam[ily] Bignoniaceae,..extensively cultivated in Pretoria wh[ich] is sometimes referred to as the ‘Jacaranda City’.
1990 P. Appelbaum in Weekly Mail 2 Nov. 29It’s hard to avoid purple prose while jacarandas are still blooming in Johannesburg...They’re already past their prime in Pretoria. Trees in the ‘Jacaranda City’ bloom two weeks earlier than they do here.
A nickname given to the city of Pretoria.
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