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Toledo

proper noun

  1. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /təˈleɪ.dəʊ/ / /təˈleɪ.doʊ/ / /təˈliː.dəʊ/

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Toledo, from Latin Tolētum.

  1. A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  2. A province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  3. The southernmost district of Belize.
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  18. A surname from Spanish [in turn transferred from the place name].

noun

Etymology: From Toledo.

  1. A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

    “Peregrine's weapon entering a kind of net work in the shell of Godfrey's sword, the blade snapped in two, and left him at the mercy of the soldier, who, far from making an insolent use of the victory he had gained, put up his Toledo with great deliberation […].”

    “A long toledo, vvith a hilt of filigrained ſteel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.”