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Prome

American  
[prohm] / proʊm /

noun

  1. a city in central Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.


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Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung.

From Time Magazine Archive

The government had driven both the two chief rebel forces, the Karens and the White Flag Communists, from their respective strongholds, Toungoo and Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other was Prome, where General H. R. L. G. Alexander had, to some extent, refitted his battered British Imperials after their retreat from Rangoon.

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After holding Prome four-and-twenty hours, we evacuated the town, and soon got back into the shallow channel up which we had come.

From The Three Commanders by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

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