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What is roanoke?

What is roanoke? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US, historical) White beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.
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They agreed to stop off at Roanoke on the way back after raiding the Spanish in the Caribbean.
A similar legend claims that the now extinct Saponi of Person County, North Carolina, are descended from the English colonists of Roanoke Island.
It was the summer of 1591 when he arrived at Roanoke, four years after his departure.
William G. Davis, a former assistant United States attorney in Roanoke, is the area's leading defense lawyer for people charged with moonshining.
Every able English ship joined the fight, leaving White without a means to return to Roanoke at the time.
The king of Machepungo was ordered to deliver over twice as much roanoke in graduated payments over the course of eight months.

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