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Definition of Dhurries
1. dhurrie [n] - See also: dhurrie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhurries
Literary usage of Dhurries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"... dainty room it was—spread with striped dhurries and hung with Indian muslin.
On one Christmas night, after the neighbouring sa/zeb logue bad been ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"A much greater development of design by stripes alone is in the cotton dhurries
of India. The aba may indeed be further adorned by very simple embroidery in ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"We sat in native fashion squat upon the silk dhurries that lay upon the marble
floor. We formed three-fourths of a circle, the centre of which the dancers ..."
4. Rugs, Oriental and Occidental, Antique and Modern: A Handbook for Ready by Rosa Belle Holt (1901)
"The Dhurrie (Durrie) is a strong, well-made rug of cotton, often in stripes of
blue, brown, or grey, with narrow yellow and red lines. Some dhurries ..."
5. Indian Life in Town and Country by Herbert Compton (1904)
"And when the camp is pitched under a shady mango tofte, or grove of trees, the
dhurries or carpets laid, the ingenious collapsible furniture arrayed in its ..."
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