Cholon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Other foreigners just disappeared, like a reputed millionaire Australian who made his money in duck feathers, Keith Hyland, a trim, debonair 54, who visited his factory in the Chinese suburb of Cholon.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2018
Gallaher obtained a guitar and amp for his work in The Rotations from a shop in Cholon, where a man named Lam Hao made knockoffs, of Fenders primarily, Gallaher says.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2015
In a teeming market in the old Chinese district of Cholon, a small mob flocked around us, hands outstretched to hold her.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2010
In the Chinese quarter of Cholon, the heaviest damaged area, only rubble and fragments of walls mark the places where row upon row of one-story houses once stood.
From Time Magazine Archive
"She bring down dry fish to sell to the poor people of Cholon."
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
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