catadupe

plural catadupes

1. Waterfall; cataract.

   It sounds just like storing up more catadupes of undigested data.

   2001 Autumn, Andrew Ehrenberg, “Marketing: Romantic or realist”, in Marketing Research, volume 13, number 3

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   Yet was not this all; for hither to the north boiled the majestic cataract in unimaginable grandiloquence, and thither to the south sparkled the gentle catadupe in serene and incandescent tranquillity, whilst far and near the halcyon brooklet flowed between!

   1938, Mark Twain (Bernard DeVoto, ed.), Letters from the Earth, page 110

   It happens oftentimes that in the church of God, where the waters of Siloam should run with silence, there is nothing heard but the tempestuous roaring of some gulf or catadupe.

   1978, Daniel Tuvill, John L. Lievsay, Essays Politic and Moral and Essays Moral and Theological, →ISBN, page 129

1. obsoleteA city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
2. An inhabitant of this city.

   Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.

   1780 [1607], The Miseries Of Inforced Marriage, page 189

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   The inhabitants of Atures and Maypures, whatever the missionaries may have asserted in their works, are not more struck with deafness by the noise of the great cataracts, than the Catadupes of the Nile.

   1819, The Leeds Correspondent