a US town on the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa . It is sometimes referred to as the typical example of a small, boring US community. A writer in the New Yorker once said that it was not the magazine for ‘the old lady from Dubuque’.
DUBUQUE
Meaning of DUBUQUE in English
Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005