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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA former British colony in modern South Africa, existing from 1843 to 1910. · A former province of South Africa, reorganized in 1994 into the modern province of KwaZulu-Natal. · A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
From Portuguese Natal (“Christmas”), because the region in South Africa was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on Christmas Day, 1497. Doublet of nada, natal, née, and Noel.
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