Goa

Definitions

1. A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
2. A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.
3. A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
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4. The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.

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Examples

“The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see⟳ to managing the household.”

“In the last⟳ week of Goa, in mid-March, there occurred an example of God's great providence: a large schooner from Dunkirk in France ran aground on one of the Hálsasker skerries off the coast of the eastern part of Suðursveit.”

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