Sarasota

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S0087700 (săr′ə-sō′tə) A city of west-central Florida south of Tampa Bay on Sarasota Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico. Settled by Scots in the 1800s, it developed as a resort.

Sar•a•so•ta

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n. a city in W Florida. 53,280.

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Sarasota - a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of MexicoEverglade State, FL, Florida, Sunshine State - a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

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(sâr'əsō`tə), city (1990 pop. 50,961), seat of Sarasota co., SW Fla., on Sarasota Bay; settled c.1884, inc. 1914. It is a yachting and fishing resort with varied light manufacturing, and packing houses handling the citrus fruit, celery, and beef raised in the area. Sarasota is the former winter home of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and is the site of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, with its excellent Peter Paul RubensRubens, Peter Paul,
1577–1640, foremost Flemish painter of the 17th cent., b. Siegen, Westphalia, where his family had gone into exile because of his father's Calvinist beliefs.
..... Click the link for more information. collection, a circus museum, and the Ringlings' mansion. Other attractions are the Sarasota Jungle Gardens, the Cars of Yesterday Museum, and an opera company and orchestra. New College of Florida is in Sarasota. Nearby, on the keys off the Gulf of Mexico, are many beautiful white-sand beaches.

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noun a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico

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