Westsylvania

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. A proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. It would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized. historical

词源

Blend of west + Pennsylvania. The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed.
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