Meanings of colonial town in English

Nothing is offered by this small colonial town that can afford interest.

He had no respect for this raw, mad, essentially colonial town.

In Hanover, an early- colonial town in western New Hampshire, Howard Dean is almost a local boy.

It is part of Mariana, an old colonial town and a major tourist attraction in Brazil.

The style of the smaller shops in every colonial town is as English as English can be.

The non-denominational church is one of dozens of houses of worship dotted around Fredericksburg, a historic colonial town in Virginia.

Indeed, it could not but be acknowledged that the site of Pieter Maritzburg had been admirably chosen for a colonial town.

To a lad such as I, bred in a quiet tho' prosperous colonial town, a walk through London was a revelation.

This is society as it grew up in Greece or Italy, as it grows up now in any American or colonial town.

There are also plenty of day trip possibilities, including the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids and the artsy colonial town of San Miguel de Allende.

Suspected drug hitmen attacked soldiers who intended to inspect a cartel safe house in the colonial town of Taxco southwest of Mexico City.

As we left the ruins of that colonial town, we talked about the powers of good and ill that resided in certain forests.

It can be tough to leave the fairy-tale world of Old Québec, a perfectly preserved colonial town neatly packaged inside 400yr-old fortified walls.

The photos were taken just months before Sri Aurobindo, founder of the commune in the former French colonial town of Pondicherry, died in 1950.

Christmas-trees were then by no means so universal, even in England, as they now are, and in this little colonial town they were unknown.

In Metepec, a quaint colonial town, almost every house and business has suffered structural damage, raising fears among residents that the rebuild could take years.