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Batticaloa

American  
[buht-i-kuh-loh-uh] / ˌbʌt ɪ kəˈloʊ ə /

noun

  1. a seaport in E Sri Lanka.


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Moinudeen, an imam from the eastern city of Batticaloa, the site of one of the Easter bombings.

From New York Times • May 5, 2019

Like Negombo, Batticaloa is adorned with banners strung up to commemorate the dead, many of them children.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2019

Even Batticaloa, the east’s second city, seemed stunned into inertia by the sun, while on the outskirts the rice farmers plodded resolutely on, throwing handfuls of seeds across flooded paddies.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016

Vallipuram Amalanayagi, 41, from Batticaloa in the east, said she and her family already knew what was in the report before its publication.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2015

See Reptiles. its sensibility to tickling, 285.habit of the crocodile to bury itself in the mud, 286.its flesh eaten, 284 n.their vitality, 288 n.one killed at Batticaloa, 287.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

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