English

Proper noun

Catadupe

1. (obsolete) A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara.
2. An inhabitant of Catadupe.
   • 1780, The Miseries Of Inforced Marriage, page 189:

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

   • 1819, The Leeds Correspondent:

     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.

Usage notes

The city is now called Catwa. This obsolete name is of note primarily because of the 1780 quote given above about the Catadupes not hearing the falls.

English

Noun

catadupe ‎(plural catadupes)

1. Waterfall; cataract.
   • 1938, Mark Twain (Bernard DeVoto, ed.), Letters from the Earth, page 110:

     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!

   • 1978, Daniel Tuvill & ‎John L. Lievsay, Essays Politic and Moral and Essays Moral and Theological, ISBN 0918016525, page 129:

     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.

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

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