Definitions
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- proper noun Former spelling of
Dhaka , capital ofBangladesh .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capital and largest city of Bangladesh
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Examples
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_Rada Churn Dey_, whom Mr. Barwell asserts to be a real person living at Dacca, and who _stood for the factory of Dacca_; whereas the Armenian affirms that there was _no_ such person as _Rada Churn_, and that it was a fictitious name.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
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The Tumbrel Diaries: Francesco Renaldi in Dacca skip to main | skip to sidebar
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I can best describe the political character of the sect by telling you that the authorities in Dacca have indicted Jamaat's Bangladeshi leaders on charges that they aided and abetted the Pakistani army's crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh war of independence.
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She continued working as a teacher and school administrator, at one point coaching boy's basketball in Dacca.
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And think of still another exquisitely fine Indian cotton called Dacca cotton that is spun and woven into fragile oriental muslins and Madras Long Cloth.
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According to an inscription, it was painted at Dacca in 1789.
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For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, forنواب آصف الدولہ Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh).
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She later accompanied her husband on his assignments as economic and development adviser to Saigon and what was then Dacca, East Pakistan.
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For ten years Renaldi lived in Calcutta, Lucknow (working, it is believed, forنواب آصف الدولہ Asaf ud-Daulah, the Nawab Wazir of Oudh), and in Dacca (now the capital city of Bangladesh).
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According to an inscription, it was painted at Dacca in 1789.
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