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Malabar Coast: tags: [geography]

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a long, narrow coastline on the southwestern shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent. Geographically, it comprises the wettest regions of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains, especially on their westward-facing mountain slopes. The term "Malabar Coast" is sometimes used to refer to the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Kanyakumari.

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Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)

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So it was with the Cassandra, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies;

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)

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The King of Malabar had shown to a certain Venetian a rosary of three hundred and four pearls, one for every god that he worshipped.

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray