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

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

In 1942, after service in the Middle East, Slim was ordered to the command of the First Burma Corps in Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had not paid the men from the village, for he knew that one of these would willingly accompany him to Prome, to receive payment for them all.

From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by William Heysham Overend

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