Macassar
Britishnoun
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Around the base, Caruncho has planted a mix of Macassar ebony and osmanthus.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Into narrow Macassar Strait, where the warships, transports and screening planes of the Jap's convoy coursed south, steamed destroyers from Admiral Thomas C. Hart's Asiatic Fleet, U.S. cruisers and at least one U.S. submarine followed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not since January 1942 had U.S. surface ships pushed through the Strait of Macassar, between Borneo and Celebes.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two ports to which I refer are Singapore and Macassar.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
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