Fall Reeve

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English

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Etymology

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Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.

Proper noun

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Fall Reeve

  1. (informal) A nickname for Fall River, Massachusetts.
    Coordinate term: New Beige
    • 1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood[1], Rinehart, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
      My mother bake the massa sovadas, the sweetbreads. Much vinho tinto, some aguardente that maka the old folks have dreams. The band, she come from Fall Reeve; the young folks, they danca.
    • 2000 June 2, tejas, “The JaneSoc of Snod”, in rec.arts.books[2] (Usenet):
      > Tangentially, I don't know anything about the derivation of "hoagie."
      > Anyone?
      I'd ask Emeril. He's from Fall Reeve.
    • 2002 May 27, Skeets, “Transcript Vicente Fox on Hannity and Colmes”, in alt.politics.immigration[3] (Usenet):
      They are not illegal,they are not illegal? (I guess they're like the
      Rhode Islanders who come to work in Connecticut from [Fall Reeve] and
      [Proavidence] LOL).
    • 2003 August 15, Anne, “Did any of y'all lose power today?”, in alt.rhode_island[4] (Usenet):
      After Hurricane Gloria, we had no well water (no pump running, or anything
      else) for nearly a week. We bought bottled water to drink, and paid the
      day rate at a hotel in Fall Reeve to take showers.
    • 2004 August 4, A, “alt.rhode-island does milk.”, in alt.rhode_island[5] (Usenet):
      I useta get that reaction when we lived in Little Compton and I was
      working here in Providence. Down there on the peninsula, going all the
      way <snort> to Fall Reeve to buy some Bronhard's kielbasa was the big
      thrill. ;-)
    • 2012 November 6, Hollie Delaney, Lessons: Author's Cut[6], AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71:
      It had been years since I had driven around ‘Fall Reev’ as it's known. Honestly, I avoided Fall River like the plague.
    • 2013, Remembering Adamsville[7], Little Compton Historical Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
      I don’t know what he ever saw in this little chick from Fall Reeve. You never know!

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