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What does Abyssinia mean?

April 26, 2017abyssinia mean

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What does Abyssinia mean?

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Saying “Abyssinia” (I’ll be seein’ ya) was a very common slang way of saying goodbye in the thirties and forties, probably because of the prominence of the country in the news in 1935 with the Italian invasion and Haile Selassie’s much publicized (and unheeded) plea to the League of Nations.