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Prome

American  
[prohm] / proʊm /

noun

  1. a city in central Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River: location of several noted pagodas.


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The government had driven both the two chief rebel forces, the Karens and the White Flag Communists, from their respective strongholds, Toungoo and Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond Prome were the oil fields of Yenahgyaung.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1942, after service in the Middle East, Slim was ordered to the command of the First Burma Corps in Prome.

From Time Magazine Archive

After holding Prome four-and-twenty hours, we evacuated the town, and soon got back into the shallow channel up which we had come.

From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell