klongn.
/klɒŋ/ In Thailand, a canal. Also attributive.
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1898 E. Young Kingdom of Yellow Robe ii. 26 When agricultural enterprise led to the formation of inland settlements, no roads were made..but canals or ‘khlongs’ were cut instead.
1928 Daily Express 13 Mar. 12/4 A broad flat field..beribboned with klongs (canals).
1928 Daily Express 13 Mar. 12/4 Millions of happy frogs sing in high shrill voices, perched on the banks of the klongs.
1967 National Geographic July 81 Where were the klongs of yesteryear, all those colorful canals, criss-crossing the city, that had made travel agents abroad burble about Bangkok as the Venice of the East?
1970 M. Pereira Pigeon's Blood i. 10 A wooden jetty on the banks of one of the numerous klongs, or canals, which intersected the city.
1972 Nation (Bangkok) 22 Nov. 4/4 He had made a survey of the plant and found that the water released from the ponds into the nearby klongs and later to the Chao Phya river needed to be medically treated.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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