gibraltar

IPA: dʒɪbrˈɔɫtɝ

Root Word: Gibraltar

A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.
A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.
(chiefly Canada, US); (originally) A cortado served in a small glass; (by extension) any cortado

Examples of "gibraltar" in Sentences

Mike Smith is a Washington PR executive now at Gibraltar Associates, LLC (www. gibraltar-llc.com).
Why, the way that Margaret Dickson drooped her head above the pansies, still blooming freely at her feet, was enough to melt the heart of a Salem gibraltar!
We were allowed to take a "small brown" biscuit, or a date, or a fig, or a "gibraltar," sometimes; but we well understood that we could not help ourselves to money.
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Hannah went up to her first, as she stood there alone, and Grace took a saucer and held it up before the row of us, and said, '_Thus_ says the Grand Mufti!' and then she bit a red gibraltar, and everybody laughed.
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The front shop-window was especially interesting to us children, for there were in it a few glass jars containing sticks of striped barley-candy, and red and white peppermint-drops, and that delectable achievement of the ancient confectioner's art, the "Salem gibraltar."