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Definition of Eldorado
1. Noun. An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eldorado
Literary usage of Eldorado
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed
long, Singing a song, In search of eldorado. But he grew old— This knight ..."
2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, ... In search
of eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o'er his heart a ..."
3. The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Collected, Ed., and Arranged with by Edgar Allan Poe (1911)
"And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow — "Shadow,"
said he, " Where can it be — This land of eldorado?" "Over the Mountains Of ..."
4. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"eldorado EDGAR ALLAN POE Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in
shadow Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of eldorado. ..."
5. Life of General Oglethorpe by Henry Bruce (1890)
"But he grew old— " This knight so bold— " And o'er his heart a shadow " Fell, as
he found " No spot of ground " That looked like eldorado. ..."
6. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"He was the first, the story goes, to apply the name of eldorado to the ...
Raleigh's enumeration of the various searches for eldorado in this book are ..."
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