Madras
[mə'drɑːs;-'dræs]
[mə'drɑːs;-'dræs] or [mə'dræs]
Definition
n. a large handkerchief of silk and cotton usually in bright colours worn on the head by West Indian negroes.
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Examples
- Twice or thrice in the year, according to her promise, she wrote him letters to Madras, letters all about little Georgy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her Ladyship, our old acquaintance, is as much at home at Madras as at Brussels in the cantonment as under the tents. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Cox and Greenwood; but the Major being in Madras at the time, had no particular call for coals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He might almost as well be at Madras for anything WE see of him, Miss Ann Dobbin remarked at Camberwell. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To her son's guardian, the good Major at Madras, she had not communicated any of her griefs and perplexities. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- After many signal successes, and equally signal losses, they at last lost Madras, at that time their principal settlement in India. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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