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City of Brotherly Love
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English
Etymology
See etymology at en Philadelphia.
Proper noun
City of Brotherly Love 1
en poetic en @nickname for:Philadelphia major city s/Pennsylvania c/USA.
en 21 December 1879 Ulysses S. Grant in Philadelphia Norfolk Virginian XXIX 24 Norfolk, Va. 2 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/605005714/ 1 367303721 When General Grant started on his tour around the world, the City of Brotherly Love was selected as the point of departure, and thence he set sail for Europe with the benisons of the sturdy burghers of the Quaker City.
en Colin Woodard 16 American nations New York Penguin 2011 978-1-101-54445-7 Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population.