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Definition of Mandalay
1. Noun. A city in central Myanmar to the north of Rangoon.
Definition of Mandalay
1. Proper noun. A city in central Burma (Myanmar) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandalay
Literary usage of Mandalay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"mandalay BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, ... Come you
back to mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"mandalay BY the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma
girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the ..."
3. Handbook of Best Readings by Solomon Henry Clark (1902)
"mandalay RUDYARD KIPLING By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
... Come you back to mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear ..."
4. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"On the road to mandalay— When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun ...
On the road to mandalay— But that's all shove be'ind me—long ago an' fur away ..."
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