Masqat

British

/ -kæt, ˈmʌskət /

noun

a transliteration of the Arabic name for Muscat

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All but 3,000 of the 12,000-man garrison have already been evacuated by ship and plane, most to British bases in Bahrain or Masqat and Oman; the rest will be gone by the middle of next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is an Epistle from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, unto Sulaymán in the land of Masqát, to the right of the Sea.

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