"East Virginia" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Etymology: From the analogy with West Virginia. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=East Virginia}} East Virginia
  1. A hypothetical U.S. state that would be east of and analogous to West Virginia.
    Sense id: en-East_Virginia-en-name-W5AwKhGf
  2. (humorous) Virginia, when treated analogically to West Virginia. Tags: humorous
    Sense id: en-East_Virginia-en-name-oWX5aLKC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57

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          "ref": "2006, Mark E. Sullivan, The Military Divorce Handbook",
          "text": "While she will want to convince the judge that the court has jurisdiction because no other state has jurisdiction under the jurisdictional tests of the UCCJEA or the UCCJA, whichever happens to be the applicable custody jurisdiction statute of the state of East Virginia, this should fail if she is candid with the court about the previous physical residence of the children in Germany; surely Germany would be considered the children's \"home state.\"",
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          "ref": "2008, Barbri bar review: practice questions : multistate testing",
          "text": "Question 1: The State Occupational Health and Safety Board of East Virginia recently issued regulations valid under its statutory mandate requiring that all employers in the state provide ionizing air purification systems for all employee work.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 18, Christopher Hendon <ac...@au4jesus.org>, “Need a ticket for East Virginia?”, in AU4Jesus (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20",
          "text": "OK. So I lied. This is really about West Virginia:",
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          "ref": "2016, Michael H. Hoffheimer, Examples & Explanations for Conflict of Laws",
          "text": "But Prince has come to the state of East Virginia, where Ladonna owns additional real property.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Nancy Weiser, River Runs Deep: Memoirs of a Tomboy",
          "text": "I, unfortunately, do say stupid things... a lot. I'll never live down asking where East Virginia was. Hey, there is a West Virginia so why isn't there an East Virginia!",
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          "ref": "2000 February 2, Michael Erwin <merwin@ipass.net>, “Electronic Music in West Virginia?”, in alt.west-virginia (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20",
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          "ref": "2002 July 11, Guv Bob <snuffynlowezy@aol.compost>, “Anybody know the state song of West Virginia?”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20",
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          "ref": "2016, Nancy Weiser, River Runs Deep: Memoirs of a Tomboy",
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          "ref": "2002 July 11, Guv Bob <snuffynlowezy@aol.compost>, “Anybody know the state song of West Virginia?”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet), retrieved 2017-05-20",
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