| 单词 | silver state |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver state silver state n. U.S. a state producing silver, or advocating free coinage of silver; spec. (with capital initials) Nevada or, less frequently, Colorado. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado Washoe1856 silver state1866 Sagebrush State1893 1866 Eastern Slope (Washoe, Nevada) 15 Sept. 4/1 The Silver State struck it rich when they elected H. G. Blasdel to the Gubernatorial chair. 1871 Harper's Mag. Oct. 799/1 In our early days in the Silver State females were rarely to be seen in the frontier mining camps. 1885 Weekly New Mexican Rev. 8 Jan. 4/2 All the silver states and territories [should] organize to resist the effort which the single standard advocates are making in congress to suspend the coinage of silver. 1946 Trail & Timberline May 74/1 Colorado miners had been looking for gold but silver became of such importance that when the Territory became a state in 1876, it was known as the Silver State and Georgetown was called the Silver Queen. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 10- c/2 It was a bluish-gray ore—silver—and Nevada is now appropriately nicknamed ‘The Silver State’. < as lemmas |
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