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Jidda

NOUN
  1. port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca

How To Use Jidda In A Sentence

  • The jidda, made of tinned copper, came in a variety of sizes, large sizes being required for festival meals.
  • However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda 'is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A. ehrenbergiana growing in shallow sandy depressions, rock fissures and in drainage swales on the gravel plains. Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman
  • The lowest range above Djidda is calcareous; but its rocks soon change into gneiss, and a species of granite, with schorl in the place of feldspath, accompanied by predominant masses of quartz, and some mica. Travels in Arabia
  • Arab./irid; videtur idem efle cura SuSnfium Kofar, jlS quod nomen non cuique Sucnfium, longe minus pifcatoribus Djidda notum. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium;
  • On her way to Jidda last Fall after Bob Woodward's latest book came out, she told reporters it was "incomprehensible" that she could have ignored dire terrorist threats two months before 9/11. Barry Lando: Poor Condi
  • Although non-Muslims cannot see Mecca and Medina (and those with Israeli stamps on their passports cannot enter the country at all), most can visit the old souks of cities like Jidda, which is well-preserved. Elder of Ziyon
  • MTV has already produced something similar, a special called True Life: Resist the Power, Saudi Arabia, which followed the exploits of young people in Jidda, a city considered relatively liberal for the region. America’s New Icons
  • The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. Archive 2007-02-01
  • Unless we slow down I am afraid you will see nothing of Jiddah, which is the port of Mecca, and our nearest point to it," said the commander. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing
  • In 1979, he settled in Saudi Arabia, where he was fixed up with a splendid seaside villa in the Red Sea port of Jiddah.
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