Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The town or village which clusters round a fortress; an extramural suburb of a fortress.
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- noun in Sri Lanka and southern India A
town , sometimes fortified, outside afort .
Etymologies
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From Tamil (pettia).
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Examples
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It is a little insignificant pettah, defended simply by a couple of gabions, a very ordinary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure.
Burlesques 2006
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It is a little insignificant pettah, defended simply by a couple of gabions, a very ordinary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure.
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It is a little insignificant pettah, defended simply by a couple of gabions, a very ordinary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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