Cairo
noun
1.
a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
2.
a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
Origin
Borrowed from Italian Il Cairo, from Arabic الْقَاهِرَة (al-qāhira)
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