angostura

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters

From the former name of Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela.

Full many a mother's breath hath swept O'er Angostura's plain, And long the pitying sky hath wept Above its moulder'd slain. — Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two, Various
We passed along the foot of Borrego, the mountain which has become so famous, owing to the conflict which took place there between sixty French soldiers and two thousand Mexicans, and had just reached the gateway of Angostura when a dog ran past, but soon returned, barking and fawning upon us in every way. — Adventures of a Young Naturalist, Lucien Biart

angostura bark

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