Provincetown

Proper noun

Meaning

Provincetown

A town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Synonym: P-town (informal)

Examples

Beach", named Coast Guard Beach the 5th best beach in America in 2007. citation The Outer Cape is the most unpopulated, or "rural" area of Cape Cod outside of Provincetown, which has a small, populated, city-like atmosphere during the summer season. Source: Internet

Above: “That bared and bended arm of Massachusetts” as it curves towards Provincetown. Source: Internet

Edward Rowe Snow Cape Cod's coastline has been called an "ocean graveyard" from Chatham to Provincetown, a mere fifty-mile stretch of sea containing over 3,000 shipwrecks, due to its dangerously hidden and constantly moving shoals located just off-shore. Source: Internet

By the 1890s, Provincetown was booming, and began to develop a resident population of writers and artists, as well as a summer tourist industry. Source: Internet

By the 1970s Provincetown had a significant gay population, especially during the summer tourist season, when restaurants, bars and small shops serving the tourist trade were open. Source: Internet

Culture The Fine Arts Work Center is a nonprofit educational enterprise, located in Provincetown since 1968. Source: Internet

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