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Virginia City

township in W Nev., near Reno: formerly a center of gold & silver mining (site of the Comstock Lode): pop. 2,500

Etymology: after “Old Virginny,” nickname of an early miner, a local eccentric

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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