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Penzance

Proper noun

Meaning

A coastal town, a port and civil parish with a town council in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4730).

A special service area in Rural Municipality of Sarnia No. 221, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A locality in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.

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Also, Bang, like Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, had never seen a woman before and felt a keen sense of duty, as an apprenticed pirate, until the passage of his twenty-first birthday freed him from his articles of indenture. Source: Internet

Crowther, p. 170 Iolanthe became the fourth consecutive major success for Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, following H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879) and Patience (1881). Source: Internet

Davy was acquainted with the Wedgwood family, who spent a winter at Penzance. Source: Internet

Examples include "When the Foeman bares his steel" (The Pirates of Penzance), "In a doleful train" (Patience) and "Welcome, gentry" (Ruddigore). Source: Internet

Hotch notes, at her funeral, that he met his slain ex-wife at tryouts for a high school production of The Pirates of Penzance. Source: Internet

Jacobs, p. 135 However, another musicologist, Nicholas Temperley, writes, "The choral outburst 'Hail, Poetry' in The Pirates of Penzance would need very little alteration to turn it into a Mozart string quartet." Source: Internet

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