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Dorpat

American  
[dawr-paht] / ˈdɔr pɑt /

noun

  1. German name of Tartu.


Dorpat British  
/ ˈdɔrpat /

noun

  1. the German name for Tartu

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When exploring the crosshatch of Seattle streets and architecture with this column’s founder, Paul Dorpat, two decades ago, I realized that his X-ray photographic vision of our ephemeral city included similar traces.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

Paul Dorpat, in his encyclopedic book “Building Washington,” mourned that the viaduct “stretched a permanent cataract over the eye of the city.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

The pastor’s son Paul Dorpat, historian and founder of our “Now & Then” column, allows that the 1967 trip was their only venture abroad and certainly a highlight of their lives.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021

As World War I ended in 1918, the Rev. Theodore “Ted” Dorpat was ordained by the Lutheran church.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021

Having received an order from his superiors to go to Dorpat, which is almost the outmost town of Livonia, in his way he passed through the sacred woods of the Esthonians.

From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous