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单词 british empire in america
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British Empire in America
b. Chiefly in British Empire in America: the British colonies of New England. Obsolete.
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1708 J. Oldmixon (title) The British Empire in America, containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies on the continent and islands of America.
1746 T. Prince Extraordinary Events Doings of God 16 The Island belong'd originally to the British Empire: Was at first compriz'd in the general Name and grand Patent of New England in 1620.
1748 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 79/2 It has seem'd, to me, worth the while to engage in a war with France, if 'twere for nothing else but to recover this most important island [sc. Cape Breton] to the British empire.
a1794 S. Carr Serm. (1795) II. xxv. 62 The now dismembered provinces of the British empire in America.
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