Duke City

Proper noun

Duke City or the Duke City

1. (US, colloquial) Nickname for Albuquerque: a city in New Mexico, United States.
   • The tale is pretty standard stuff—an ex-Golden Gloves champ’s search for his real father intertwined with a ruthless wanna-be Spanish blueblood attorney’s dreams of turning the Duke City’s downtown into a desert Venice by rechanneling the waters of the Rio Grande into canals.1992 December 17, Julio Moran, “Book Review: Anaya’s Tale of ‘Alburquerque’: An Old Name, and Same Old Story […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN...
   • Any conversation about travel to New Mexico seems to start with Santa Fe, the tourist-magnet about 60 miles up the road from Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. But Duke City (so called for its namesake, the Duke of Alburquerque, the early 18th-century Viceroy of New Spain) has been emerging...2019 September 19, Elaine Glusac, “36 Hours in Albuquerque”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2019