Cambay

British  

/ kæmˈbeɪ /

noun

1. an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula

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Example Sentences

On the eastern side this country is bounded by the kingdom of Cambay, and on the west by Persia.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

And it is a very good town, a seaport of the same trade, because further up that river is the great city of Cambay.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

These islands supply themselves with goods from Cambay.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

They trade in all sorts of goods, principally with the kingdom of Cambay and Ormuz, Colan, Dabul Banda, Goa, Ceylon, and the Maldiu Islands.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

A cloth of Cambay is spread out on the ground; then two old women come, each of whom has in her hand a reed trumpet.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah