Laccadive Islands

[ lah-kuh-deev, lak-uh- ]

plural noun

1. a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 7 sq. mi. (18 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Possibly it represented the figure of a woman who was possessed by an evil spirit, which was attached to it by a nail between the legs before it was cast into the sea, and was made on the Laccadive islands,22 some of the residents on which are notorious necromancers.

From Project Gutenberg

In British India, Siam, the West Coast of Africa, and elsewhere on the tropical coasts, they are still used as small change, being collected on the shores of the Maldive and Laccadive Islands, and exported for the purpose.

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To work his material into the body of the picture, which was made in the United Artists studio, Director Tay Garnett fell back on the reliable motif of the chase: assigned to find a girl wanted by the San Francisco police, Detective Sam Wye follows her to Hawaii, catches up with her in Singapore, falls in love with her in Ceylon, marries her on a boat leaving Bombay, settles down to live with her on the Laccadive Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Laccadive islands run in the same line with the Maldives, on the north, as do the isles of the Chagos Archipelago, on the south; so that these may be continuations of the same chain of submerged mountains, crested in a similar manner by coral limestones.

From Project Gutenberg

Here is the residence of the Moplah chief, known as the Ali Raja, who owns most of the Laccadive Islands.

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