city in NE Tex.
Origin of Dallas
after G. M. Dallas (1792-1864), United States vice president (1845-49)Dallas
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Dallas
A city of northeast Texas on the Trinity River east of Fort Worth. Founded in 1841, it grew as a cotton market in the late 1800s and is now a major commercial center.x
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Sentence Examples
- Dugmore who have done much remarkable work in bird photography; Dallas Lore Sharp, Bradford Torrey, E.
- Thanks to Mr Sclater, the Ray Society was induced to publish, in 1867, an excellent translation by Mr Dallas of Nitzsch's Pterylography, and thereby, however tardily, justice was at length rendered by British ornithologists to one of their greatest foreign brethren.'
- The university includes a fitting school at Georgetown, and a medical department at Dallas, Texas; in 1909 it had an enrolment of 1037 students.
- GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS (1792-1864), American statesman and diplomat, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of July 1792.
- Dallas, the financier, and was admitted to the bar in 1813.
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