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- proper noun Former name of
Puducherry , a union territory in southernIndia . - proper noun Former name of the capital of the union territory of
Puducherry .
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Examples
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I am living in Pondicherry India with my son and wife and I sm constantly showing off, as my son would say, my iPhone to Indians.
Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009
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But Katell Gelebart, a very clever, eco-minded designer saw the old water tanks being cleared during the construction of The Dune eco resort in Pondicherry, India, and decided they would make the perfect green playhouses for children visiting the resort.
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Pondicherry is described as an anomaly, the former capital of what was once French India.
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"You were born, I think, in Pondicherry, in India, and are the younger daughter of Captain and Mrs. Duplessis, who was own sister to her ladyship?"
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"I was born in Pondicherry," replied the young girl, quietly, "and I am the only legitimate child of the late Captain and Mrs. Duplessis, own sister to her ladyship."
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Pondicherry is a French settlement, and manners and customs there are often very peculiar.
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There were the marriage certificates of my father's first wife – and two sworn statements as to her death, two months after the birth of my sister Henriette; one by Dr. Rénaud, who was at the time a well-known medical man in Pondicherry, and the other by Roonah herself, who had held her dying sister in her arms.
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The French company also had built a fort on the coast of the Carnatic, about eighty miles south of Madras, called Pondicherry, and had colonized two fertile islands in the Indian Ocean, which they called the Isle of
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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Consider Pondicherry, which is a small market with less than 1,000 PC unit sales a month.
IT Channel News | Latest Information Technology News - Home 2009
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Consider Pondicherry, which is a small market with less than 1,000 PC unit sales a month.
IT Channel News | Latest Information Technology News - Home 2009
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