Cholon
Americannoun
noun
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Other foreigners just disappeared, like a reputed millionaire Australian who made his money in duck feathers, Keith Hyland, a trim, debonair 54, who visited his factory in the Chinese suburb of Cholon.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2018
Gallaher obtained a guitar and amp for his work in The Rotations from a shop in Cholon, where a man named Lam Hao made knockoffs, of Fenders primarily, Gallaher says.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2015
In a teeming market in the old Chinese district of Cholon, a small mob flocked around us, hands outstretched to hold her.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2010
Neither his government nor his American friends nor his contacts in the Cholon underworld had been able to help.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cholon was founded by Chinese immigrants about 1780, and is situated on the Chinese arroyo at the junction of the Lo-Gom and a canal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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