Holy City

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

n.


a nickname for Adelaide. See Farinaceous City.

1875. R. and F. Hill, `What we Saw in Australia,' p. 264:

«. . . including so many churches that we are at a loss tounderstand why Adelaide should, in virtue of her supposedsuperabundance, be nicknamed by her neighbours the Holy City.»

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