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Definition of Da gamma
1. Noun. Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Da Gamma
Literary usage of Da gamma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Renaissance, the Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in by Edward Maslin Hulme (1914)
"Thn Later Portugese Sailors It was Vasco da Gamma (1469? ... Vasco da Gamma was
something of a crusader. On his first voyage he had sunk Mohammedan dhows ..."
2. A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama, 1497-1499 by Ernest George Ravenstein (1898)
"probably that of one of the librarians of the convent :— " Descobrimento da India
por D. Vasco da Gamma". Prof. ..."
3. The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem: The Record of a Brilliant Era of by Ralph D[elahaye] Paine (1912)
"The cross-staff, as used by Columbus and Vasco da Gamma, consisted of two light
battens or strips of wood, joined in the shape of a cross, the observer ..."
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