Coromandel Coast love

Coromandel Coast

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of southeast India bounded by the Bay of Bengal and the Eastern Ghats. The coast is known for its monsoons and turbulent waters.

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Examples

  • Sometimes the temple is of small dimensions, as that at Mahavelliopore on the Coromandel Coast which is hewn out of a detached rock; the ground-plan is a quadrangle, and it rises in several stories like a pyramid built in several terraces.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Here, finally, was the ghost who had followed him from the Coromandel Coast through the black streets of London and onto the roads at dusk, when he was far from his big houses.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Here, finally, was the ghost who had followed him from the Coromandel Coast through the black streets of London and onto the roads at dusk, when he was far from his big houses.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Inside the palanquin, sunk on pink silk cushions, was Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, president of the settlements on the Coromandel Coast, official of the mighty East India Company, which ruled nearly a fifth of the world.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Here, finally, was the ghost who had followed him from the Coromandel Coast through the black streets of London and onto the roads at dusk, when he was far from his big houses.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Inside the palanquin, sunk on pink silk cushions, was Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, president of the settlements on the Coromandel Coast, official of the mighty East India Company, which ruled nearly a fifth of the world.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • Inside the palanquin, sunk on pink silk cushions, was Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, president of the settlements on the Coromandel Coast, official of the mighty East India Company, which ruled nearly a fifth of the world.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

  • The tiger would rule from the snowy mountains of the north to the palm-edged beaches of the south, and from the Coromandel Coast to the seas off Malabar.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

  • Scholarly studies suggest that perhaps more Indians - especially from Bengal, Kerala and the Coromandel Coast (that is my region) - were brought to the Cape than Malays, so that even a majority of the Coloured people partly descended from Indians.

    SPEECH OPENING THE EXHIBIT ON "ART, CULTURE AND SOCIAL REALITY" AT THE WITS SPRING FESTIVAL, UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND 1991

  • _ -- In the districts forming the Coromandel Coast and also

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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