Coromandel Coast

American  

[kawr-uh-man-dl, kor-, kawr-, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˈmæn dl, ˈkɒr-, ˌkɔr-, ˌkɒr- /

noun

1. a coastal region in SE India, S of the Krishna River.

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Coromandel Coast British  

/ ˌkɒrəˈmændəl /

noun

1. the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River

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Coromandel Coast

India, too, is considered by Parlatore to have been the original home of the herbaceous type, and he specially fixes the Coromandel Coast as the first centre from which it sprang.

From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Frederick Wilkinson

D'Orves, Comte, French Admiral, commands in East Indies, 1781, 235, 236; joined by Suffren, 239; sails for Coromandel Coast, 240; dies, and succeeded by Suffren, 240.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Then, wanting to cross waters too deep for a pole, they invented the first paddles; and so made the same sort of catamaran that you can still see on the Coromandel Coast in southern India.

From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Charles Henry Wood

Three hundred years ago, Madras, under the name of 'Madraspatnam' was a tiny rural village on the Coromandel Coast.

From The Story of Madras by Glyn Barlow

India, China, Arabia, Persia, Asia Minor, Africa, and the Coromandel Coast all have a common type of plant which probably first grew in the latter place and was transplanted from there to the other countries.

From Carl and the Cotton Gin by Sara Ware Bassett