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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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Every able English ship joined the fight, leaving White without a means to return to Roanoke at the time.
He could do nothing but leave fifteen men with supplies on Roanoke and return.
A similar legend claims that the now extinct Saponi of Person County, North Carolina, are descended from the English colonists of Roanoke Island.
Roanoke Valley Cablevision provided help in programming and in gaining public access.
They agreed to stop off at Roanoke on the way back after raiding the Spanish in the Caribbean.
It was, however, during the quatercentenary celebrations of the Roanoke Voyages in the 1980s that she became closely involved in the colony as well as its maps.

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