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Nob Hill

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Etymology

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Shortening of nabob (wealthy person).

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Nob Hill

  1. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
    • 2010, Katherine Powell Cohen, San Francisco's Nob Hill, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
      The first houses reached the windy upper slopes of Nob Hill in 1853, thirty million years after runoff from a faraway island met with the continent to form a land mass that includes today's Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, []

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