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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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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

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

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

The English army had left Rangoon, and were advancing towards Prome, when these severe measures were taken with the prisoners.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

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