Words similar to colonial

Example sentences for: colonial

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After 1759, most colonial administrators and merchants just abandoned Québec, while many who stayed on moved to the shelter of the new British defenses in the Upper Town.
Nassau town has a fine pedigree dating back through colonial times, and the compact town center still has the feel of life under the English.
Equally fascinating are the two parallel, partly residential streets — O’Reilly and Obrapía — where grand neoclassical and colonial buildings intermingle with decrepit tenements.
With its broad chimney, fine-grained limestone frames around the doors, and gracefully tapered casement windows, the house is one of the more handsome architectural specimens of the French colonial era.
In 1921 the Germans placed their artillery here to defend the colonial port of Amoy, as Xiamen was known to Westerners.