英语词汇crescent city的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crescent city
词源	Crescent City. A nickname for New Orleans, because, ac- cording to Joseph Ingraham in The South-West (1835), “it is built around the segment of a circle formed by a graceful curve of the Mississippi River.”
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