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Definition of Surat
1. a coarse uncoloured cloth [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surat
Literary usage of Surat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"In my time, they had a Jefuit of Hamburgh for their director. I have been told,
however, that, fince I left Surat, they have ..."
2. The History of British India by James Mill (1820)
"THE city of Surat, situated in the province of ... that this amount exceeds the
reality, Surat may at this time be regarded as the largest city in India. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Surat was at the time one of the greatest ports in India, ... The British community
in Surat was struggling, as usti for privileges or rights ; and the ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The climate of Surat varies greatly with the distance from the sea. ... The average
at Surat city for the nineteen years ending 1881 amounted to 41-19 ..."
5. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"Part II arrived there, and that afterwards the Honourable Mr. Spencer, Captain
of the Factory at Surat, with the renowned Paris Khan, came and turned out ..."
6. Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in by James Talboys Wheeler (1878)
"In the first instance the English effected a lodgment at Surat. This town is
seated on the ... The port of Surat had been famous from a remote antiquity. ..."
7. A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur by William Erskine (1854)
"Gujrat service,) but Rumi Kh«" note) supposes that Surat castle Sefer ...
tioned in the text, retook Surat and and who afterwards conducted the Baruch. ..."
8. A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur by William Erskine (1854)
"Abyssinian slaves.* His partizans, within the country, 1536 were not idle.
Rum Khan Sefer, the engineer who had surat occu- conducted the building of Surat ..."
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