Pulicat, a town of British India, 20 miles N. of Madras, the first settlement of the Dutch in India; pop. 4967. It stands on an island in a large inlet of the sea called the Lake of Pulicat.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 487
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