Madras

[mə'drɑːs;-'dræs]

[mə'drɑːs;-'dræs] or [mə'dræs]

(noun.) a light patterned cotton cloth.

编辑:韦斯利--From WordNet

n. a large handkerchief of silk and cotton usually in bright colours worn on the head by West Indian negroes.

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Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
Her Ladyship, our old acquaintance, is as much at home at Madras as at Brussels in the cantonment as under the tents. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
Cox and Greenwood; but the Major being in Madras at the time, had no particular call for coals. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
He might almost as well be at Madras for anything WE see of him, Miss Ann Dobbin remarked at Camberwell. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
To her son's guardian, the good Major at Madras, she had not communicated any of her griefs and perplexities. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
After many signal successes, and equally signal losses, they at last lost Madras, at that time their principal settlement in India. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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