Macassar
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Around the base, Caruncho has planted a mix of Macassar ebony and osmanthus.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
It was noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the General: "I think today we settled the score of that Macassar Strait affair of three and a half years ago."
From Time Magazine Archive
Into narrow Macassar Strait, where the warships, transports and screening planes of the Jap's convoy coursed south, steamed destroyers from Admiral Thomas C. Hart's Asiatic Fleet, U.S. cruisers and at least one U.S. submarine followed.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was much pleasanter than groping about by means of soundings, and it was a great relief to think that we were at last fairly on our course for Macassar.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
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