peninsula, noun

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Usually with initial capital.
Origin:
EnglishShow more Special sense of general English.
The Peninsula: The Cape Peninsula. Also attributive.
1919 J.Y. Gibson in S. Afr. Jrnl of Science July 3The settlers had made their way accross the 600 miles of rough, trackless country which separated them from the Peninsula by means of their wagons.
1926 M. Nathan S. Afr. from Within 201The Peninsula is entirely cut off from the mainland by a sandy isthmus, the Cape Flats.
c1929 S. Black in S. Gray Three Plays (1984) 66Van K: He’s quite an intellectual, hey? Lady M: I’ve never troubled to enquire. The most presumptuous person in the whole Peninsula.
1936 Cape Times 2 Nov. 17For the first time in the peninsula, two-way telephonic communications..were established with an aeroplane in flight.
1953 Du Plessis & Lückhoff Malay Quarter 31The festival takes place..in many Peninsula mosques.
1971 Grocott’s Mail 15 Oct. 3Phase one will reach 72 per cent of the White population, with concentration in the Peninsula, the Reef, East London, Port Elizabeth and the South Coast areas.
1981 Argus 3 July 14Peninsula Administration Board officials raided the restaurant this week and took Miss H— away because they said they were investigating allegations that she was a black person ‘passing as coloured’.
1988 Style May 8Recently, some 11000 cyclists entered the 100-km jaunt around the Peninsula.
1990 G. Haresnape in M. Leveson Firetalk 26These Flats, between the Peninsula and the mountains, are now saturated with water after two days’ rain.
The Peninsula:The Cape Peninsula. Also attributive.
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