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Abilene   /ˈæbɪlˌin/   Listen
Abilene

noun
1.
A city in central Texas.
2.
A town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower.






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"Abilene" Quotes from Famous Books



... atmosphere here strangely unfamiliar to him. Yet he had visited some fairly wild and wide-open towns. But they had owed their wildness and excitement and atmosphere to the range and the omnipresent cowboy. Old-timers had told him stories of Abilene and Dodge, when they were in their heyday. He had gambled in the hells of Juarez, across the Texas border where there was no law. Some of the Montana cattle towns were far from slow, in cowboy vernacular. But here he sensed a new element. And soon he grasped it as the fever of the rush for ...
— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey



Words linked to "Abilene" :   town, TX, KS, Kansas, city, Lone-Star State, urban center, Texas, Sunflower State, metropolis



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