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pettah
n. (context in Sri Lanka and southern India English) A town, sometimes fortified, outside a fort.
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Pettah
Pettah may refer to:
- Pettah of Ahmednagar, A fortified town outside the Fort of Ahmednagar stormed by British soldiers in 1803 during Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Pettah, Colombo, a neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka located east of the City centre fort.
- Pettah, Thiruvananthapuram, a residential suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, India.
Usage examples of "pettah".
They came here in the morning, looked at the pettah wall, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and returned to breakfast!
Konzak heavy across his thighs, Lyons looked out at the Pettah street, crowded with Asian bodies, and his loathing suddenly peaked in one seething moment of hatred.