Farinaceous City

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

or Village


n. aplayful name for Adelaide. The allusion is to wheat being theleading export of South Australia.

1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,'vol. ii. p. 184:

«[Adelaide] has also been nicknamed the Farinaceous City.A little gentle ridicule is no doubt intended to be conveyedby the word.»

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