kampong

[ UK /kˈæmpɒŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a native village in Malaysia
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How To Use kampong In A Sentence

  • The charity feeds 700 children in four kampongs each month and sponsors 120 children to attend school, among other things.
  • Now, most of the kampongs have grotesque concrete eyesores fingering the sea, and there are all manner of boats arriving or departing every other hour.
  • (The picture of the little Malay boy gazing out of the window of his kampong house to illustrate Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in a book of nursery rhymes, for example.) MPH Celebrates Its Big Birthday
  • If I lived in a kampong, the food that I eat would not be considered special,’ she said.
  • As we rattled in a sort of governess-cart, called sado, up the broad, palm-lined avenue which leads from Boeleleng to Singaradja, the seat of government, three miles away, I caught fleeting glimpses of natives peering at me furtively over the mud walls which surround their kampongs, but the instant they saw that they were observed they disappeared from view. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
  • WHEN I was a little girl we lived in a kampong in Malaysia.
  • Situated off the road in a Balinese kampong, it blends perfectly in the traditional surroundings of Banjar Palak, Sukawati, where it is located.
  • It is the _kampong_ of the men who catch fish by means of bambu fishing stakes, or traps, described hereafter, and supply the largest quantity of that article to the market; it is known as the _Kampong Pablat_. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
  • Through the kampong's black palms came the sound of galloping gamelan orchestras and bamboo sticks clacking away the evil spirits.
  • Rasdullah, who tried but failed to qualify for the 2002 gubernatorial election, said more than 87,000 families in 40 kampongs across the city had been affected by the evictions.
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