Buda-Pest

A form of Budapest — The capital and the most populous city of Hungary.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of Budapest.

    A man with a much more horrid name, which I can’t venture to reproduce from memory, wrote to me yesterday asking permission to translate my recent “Herbert Spencer Lecture” into Hungarian, for his Sociological Review, of which he enclosed a prospectus. They do these things well in Buda-Pest.

    1907 December 2, Francis Galton, Letter to Milly Lethbridge; republished as Karl Pearson, editor, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, volume 3B, 1930, page 585
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