Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Sri Lanka east-northeast of Colombo. The last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon, it is a resort and religious center.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
candy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city of central Sri Lanka that was the last capital of the ancient kings of Ceylon; a resort and religious center
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Examples
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After 10 months in Kandy, Julia flew, via Calcutta, to Kunming, China, to set up and run the OSS Registry.
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It's not my usual type of thing either so I shall have to think long and hard about what fabric to use so I love it so much that I do use it - Kandy is very good at stretching us outside our comfort zone
Bags & lotto blocks - revealed! katelnorth 2008
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The road to Kandy is spoken of as being very beautiful.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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Kandy is pretty, but far from what it is claimed to be.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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Before then, the island had three kingdoms, namely Kandy in the central hills, Kotte on the Western coast, and Jaffna in the north.
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He has been at this, unswervingly, since 1965, when he published a curio about pop culture called The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
two stories, high 2004
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The peach-stone is called Kandy, and the people Kandyans.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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The population of the Diocese of Kandy, which is made up of various races including Cingalese and Tamils, amounts to 809,506, of whom
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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She does ballet and jazz at the Variety Dance Centre and is in a jazz group called Kandy Kids.
NewsWire.co.nz 2009
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Avery had "Rob 'Kandy' Kane" painted on the side of the plane.
ROBERT KANE 2010
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