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Walter Ralegh   Listen
Walter Ralegh

noun
1.
English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618).  Synonyms: Ralegh, Raleigh, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Walter Raleigh.





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"Walter Ralegh" Quotes from Famous Books



... Walter Ralegh, that glorious son of Devon, from which county you and I, Antony, are proud to have sprung, lay in the Tower of London awaiting his cowardly and shameful execution the next day at the hands of that miserable James I., ...
— The Glory of English Prose - Letters to My Grandson • Stephen Coleridge


Words linked to "Walter Ralegh" :   Sir Walter Raleigh, coloniser, courtier, colonizer, Raleigh


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