Lexicographical Neighbors of Numdahs
Literary usage of Numdahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne (1907)
"The coarser work in wool on cushions, curtains, and thick white numdahs is most
... Curiously enough, the best of these numdahs (which make capital rugs or ..."
2. The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on by Charles Adolphus Murray Dunmore (1893)
"They manufacture numdahs, or thick felt blankets, and in Andijan they make carpets.
They exchange these felt numdahs for cotton, cloths, boots, ..."
3. Innermost Asia: Travel & Sport in the Pamirs by Ralph Patteson Cobbold (1900)
"On hearing this they petitioned me to pay them in numdahs, in preference to coin
for which they had no use. They had worked so hard and carried my baggage ..."
4. Afoot Through the Kashmir Valleys by Marion Doughty (1901)
"More numdahs." " Yes, that was a good notion; they were so warm." So a friend
was brought, who, like all his confreres, had the " best designs in Kashmir ..."
5. Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery by Matthew Horace Hayes (1903)
"When saddle cloths or numdahs are used, the groom, ... Useful as numdahs undoubtedly
are for preventing a badly fitting saddle from hurting the horse, ..."
6. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by RUDYARD. KIPLING (1899)
"Little girls aren't expected to handle numdahs. Now, where would you like it put ?
(Holds saddle above his head?) MRS. G. (A break in her voice?) Nowhere. ..."
7. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the by Francis Edward Younghusband (1904)
"The Gurkhas had two snug little tents, with waterproof sheets, and numdahs, and
everything that could be done to make them comfortable, and, ..."
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