Coromandel Coast
Americannoun
noun
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There are always breakers, however, on the Coromandel Coast, and Mr. Day found the landing so exciting that in his report to the Council at Masulipatam he wrote of 'the heavy and dangerous surf'.
From The Story of Madras by Barlow, Glyn
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 Barlow, Glyn
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 Bassett, Sara Ware
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 Wilkinson, Frederick
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 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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