Cheribon

British  

/ ˈtʃɪərəˌbɒn /

noun

1. a former spelling of Cirebon

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Example Sentences

One day last week, he was traveling across Java from Bandung to Cheribon a jeep mate with brilliant Yale Sociologist Raymond Kennedy, 43.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the other better known districts are: Preanger, Cheribon, Kadoe, Samarang, Soerabaya, and Tegal.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

The subdivision of the province of Cheribon, called Gabang, yields rice of fine white grain, equal to that of Carolina.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Owing to the circumstance that both the idioms are used in Cheribon, many writers have deduced thence the origin of the name of that province, which signifies in Javanese "mingled," or mixed.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

I must perform my duty, and that is to convey you with me to Cheribon, where my superior officers will investigate the matter.

From James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell