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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Sri Lanka on the Indian Ocean. It was a trade center for the Chinese and Arabs by 100 BC and later flourished as a Portuguese and Dutch port.

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Examples

  • GALLE, Sri Lanka: A wet outfield has delayed the start of the third day's play in the rain-hit first cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in Galle on Tuesday.

    The Times of India 2010

  • You need to chat with the Muslims in Galle and the tea pluckers in Nuwara Eliya.

    Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist 2009

  • As you can see, Galle is a huge impact crater (although it's dwarfed by Argyre Planitia and Hellas Planitia, both of which are much, much larger).

    A Matter of Perspective JDsg 2006

  • As you can see, Galle is a huge impact crater (although it's dwarfed by Argyre Planitia and Hellas Planitia, both of which are much, much larger).

    Archive 2006-05-01 JDsg 2006

  • I was born in a place called Galle, which is in Sri Lanka, a few hours from Colombo.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • And so we evacuated and just miraculously got to a nearby town, the largest town, called Galle, which are pictures that you're showing right now.

    CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2005 2005

  • I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors.

    Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

  • No wonder, well-known authorss called the Galle festival as 'gathering of the bookworms'

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Deji Olukotun 2012

  • After Sri Lanka's punishment was announced, ICC General Manager David Richardson said that the game's governing body also doesn't want to see pitches that are too easy to bat on, but added that the balance at Galle was too weighted in favor of the bowler.

    'Bad' Pitches Make for Cracking Cricket Richard Lord 2011

  • But, as on most slow surfaces, spin is always a factor in the country, and never more so than on the dusty surface at Galle, which turned sideways from the first day in the recent match against Australia.

    'Bad' Pitches Make for Cracking Cricket Richard Lord 2011

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