Kandy
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- proper noun
- I wish to thank the Institute for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, for kindly allowing me to use their library in spring 2004.
- Kandy Bar
Examples
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I don't know how to communicate with Kandy except in this public way.
Blog text (9) -
To complete the design, House of Kolor KK Kandy.
Blog text (34) -
Maybe it was the name of the city I was heading for—Kandy—that first caught the eye of a child.
Academic text (2007) -
If you wonder why I haven't been around, I've been stuck in Kandy's Korner.
Blog text (16) -
That quality, said National AIDS Fund president and CEO Kandy Ferree, is what will be Gómez's lasting mark not only on the field of public health but also on society.
Academic text (2010) -
A case in point in the use of Buddhist meditation in a psychiatric setting in Kandy, Sri Lanka (de Silva & Samarasinghe, 1985).
Academic text (1990) -
Oscar proffered a one-pound box of marzipan from Heidi's Kandy Kitchen, a concession he'd found tucked away in a strip mall.
Fiction book (1999) -
"You helped me, James, and I know you'll help Mary, whose last name, by the way, has the same root as the town of Matale in Sri Lanka, twenty-three kilometers north of Kandy, a vital cattle center with rubber plantations nearby.
Fiction book (1993) -
"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" represents the first time that Wolfe truly understood and was able to formulate the big idea that would transform him from an above-average feature writer into the premier cultural chronicler of our age.
Blog text (19)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kandy comes from the Sinhalese word Kanda, which means 'hill'. So Kandy is literally a 'hill' city, and that helps explain why it was the last capital of the old kings and a famous religious center.