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Balboa

noun

The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos.

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519). Synonym: Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

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"Balboa" Quotes from Famous Books

... was Balboa," said Peter, in answer to the question, as he smiled at this tardy recognition of the services of the explorer. "He went broke at St. Domingo, one day in the year 1510, and hired a fellow to head him up in a wine cask and put the cask on board a ship bound for Darien. He made the ...

— Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone - The Plot Against Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson

... exaltation. And the ending is simply superb, though I could wish that some of the terrific dissonances in the accompaniment had been put into the unisonal voices to widen the effect and strengthen the final grandeur. But as it is, it rings like a clarion of triumph,—the cry of a Balboa discovering a new sea ...

— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

... within me, shall I forget how, one breathless August day, when the air was heavy with the aroma of creosoted sleepers, my small brother and I stared through the gates of a level crossing, and saw Epping Forest in the blue distance! O phantoms of Cortes, Balboa, and De Soto, wert thou there? O Sir Francis, hadst thou that ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

... Balboa immediately concluded it to be the ocean for which Columbus had searched in vain; and when, at length, after a toilsome march among the mountains, his guides pointed out to him the summit from which it might ...

— Poems • Samuel Rogers

Words linked to "Balboa" : centesimo, navigator, Panamanian monetary unit