El|ba

El|ba
El|ba «EHL buh», noun.
a place of exile or seclusion: »

... the comic figure waiting for the revolution to call him back in 1968 from his self-adopted Elba in the cafés of the Left Bank (Sir Denis Brogan).

[< Elba, the island to which Napoleon was exiled in 1814]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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