Straits Settlements

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a former British crown colony in SE Asia: included the settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca, and Labuan.

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Straits Settlements British  

/ streɪts /

plural noun

1. (formerly) a British crown colony of SE Asia that included Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan, and some smaller islands

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Straits Settlements

Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java.

From Time Magazine Archive

British and Dutch tincoons also try to monopolize the smelting business, slap export taxes on Malayan and Indies ore that does not go to plants in Straits Settlements, England or The Netherlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week they received this note from Singapore, Straits Settlements, about 14,000 miles away: Of the thousands of different types of fish, only five can produce electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Straits Settlements and Burma I have seen in the dead of winter, and yet with no suggestion of snow, bare fields, or leafless trees.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton