colonial town

collocation in English

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colonial
adjective
uk
/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us
/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet the city that witnessed independence still retained many of the features that had shaped the character of thecolonialtown.
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Among other things, the book stresses two important aspects of leisure in thecolonialtown: time and space.
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Thecolonialtownhall building was simple and the story of its construction has been bumpy.
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Teziutln is described in some guidebooks as a picturesquecolonialtown.
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It is acolonialtownsteeped in history.
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It is now a reconstructedcolonialtown, a museum complex and a center for living history.
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He received his formal schooling and training as a merchant in thecolonialtown.
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Thecolonialtownhad been designed for a population of only 10,000, and subsequent growth has created extensive infrastructural and environmental problems.
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The plots were generally assigned to the inhabitants based on their occupation or role in thecolonialtown.
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Direct rule characterized colonial towns, with their language of civil rights.
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Although most roads are in good shape, many streets are fairly narrow as would be expected for a historiccolonialtown.
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Thecolonialtownwas an agrarian center, with a smattering of grist mills, distilleries, and iron works.
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A number of settler families moved from the frontier community to the safety of larger colonial towns.
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The rebels used tactics such as property confiscation to suppress loyalism and drive loyalists out of major colonial towns.
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They represented an "acclimatisation garden", part of the colonial town's agricultural planning for both local food supply and development of farming industry.
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