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  • proper noun The royal capital of Perlis (Malaysia).

Etymologies

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From Malay Arau.

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Examples

  • He's just finished shooting "" Johnny Mnemonic '' with artist turned director Robert Longo, and he's about to work with Alfonso ( "" Like Water for Chocolate '') Arau playing a World War II soldier in a romance, "" A Walk in the Clouds. ''

    Goodbye, Airhead 2008

  • Buy a few hundred steel tobacco pipes with the stems and four thalers worth of Arau knives and several brass knives.

    Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

  • I mean to take it across to Arau, Henry Tagalana's little island, for there, even in very wet weather, there is little fear of ague, the soil being light and sandy.

    Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

  • Perlis, after their shock 2-1 win over Kedah last week, this time stunned Kuala Lumpur 2-0 at UiTM Mini Stadium in Arau.

    nst online 2010

  • Arau only finds the pair thanks to Luise Fellner (Johanna Wokalek), a lovesick freelance photographer that gets her big break after she volunteers Andi and Toni as prime-o subjects for the paper's next big story.

    New York Press 2010

  • Their attempt is chronicled by a jaded Berlin newspaper reporter Arau (Ulrich Tukur), who is accompanied by a novice photographer, Luise (Johanna Wokalek), who is a childhood friend of the two soldiers and has an unspoken crush on Kurz.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • As luck would have it, Arau has in his employ a plucky wannabe photojournalist, Luise Fellner (Johanna Wokalek), whose current position is that of a kind of secretary who makes coffee.

    News webmaster@mountainx.com 2010

  • Though Arau is apparently meant to be a Nazi true believer, he's pretty much in the mode of the editor as defined by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in the 1928 play

    News webmaster@mountainx.com 2010

  • In response to the front page article in the Stabroek News March 23, 2009 edition ( 'Mining pollution continues at Arau'), a team consisting of …

    Stabroek News 2009

  • GGMC sent a team to investigate mining pollution at Arau which has reported

    Stabroek News 2009

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