Crescent City
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Crescent City¹
proper noun
- A harbor city in northern California, United States, and the county seat of Del Norte County. The waves, measuring at 3.6 feet, slammed into the Northern California coastline near the small enclave of Crescent City and Humboldt Bay, the National Weather Service Eureka announced.
- A city in Putnam County, Florida, United States.
- A village in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.
Crescent City²
Where it comes from
From the city's crescent-shaped development around the Mississippi River, originally in reference to the older neighborhoods of New Orleans. This imaginary crescent might arc, for example, from the Warehouse District upriver to the Bywater neighborhood downriver, with the French Quarter at its midsection.
proper noun the Crescent City
- Nickname for New Orleans: a city in Louisiana, United States. The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all.
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title = {Crescent City},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crescent%20city},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
