Chandernagore
Americannoun
noun
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Middle-class people didn’t talk like that in pastoral Chandernagore, a small town in West Bengal, about 30 miles from Kolkata.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
All the former commercial grandeur of Chandernagore has now passed away, and at present it is little more than a quiet suburb of Calcutta, without any external trade.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
"Sure 'tis a most pleasant engaging young man," said Mrs. Merriman, as her boat dropped down the river towards Chandernagore.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
No line-of-battle ship has been seen in the Hooghly since Admiral Watson sailed up to Chandernagore just a hundred years ago;45 and certainly nothing in his fleet was equal to the Sanspareil.
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Arthur Christopher Benson
The boat coming to a ghat below Chandernagore, the serang ordered the men to pull in, and tied up for the night.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
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