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Definition of Chapatis
1. chapati [n] - See also: chapati
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapatis
Literary usage of Chapatis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in the mission, the camp and the zenáná; or, Six years in India by Colin Mackenzie (1854)
"They grind their own meal and live on chapatis, except in the hot weather, when
they get a little rice, as chapatis alone are too heating. ..."
2. Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-wheel Among the Temples by William Hunter Workman, Fanny Bullock Workman (1904)
"The rice was good and some of the vegetables endurable, the butter delicious,
and the chapatis more palatable and less leathery than ..."
3. In Journeyings Oft: A Sketch of the Life and Travels of Mary C. Nind by Georgiana Baucus (1897)
"In place of the rice and chopsticks, these children broke off bits from their
chapatis (large, thin wheaten cakes) with their fingers, dipping them into a ..."
4. Monks' Cookbook by Himalayan Academy, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1997)
"For chapatis: Divide dough into 8 equal parts. Roll into small balls and, using
a rolling pin, ... Keep chapatis covered as others are being made. ..."
5. Glossary of the Multani language compared with Punjábi and Sindhi by Edward O'Brien (1881)
"F.—A cake made of two unbaked BUSARI, ) chapatis with gur between them. The edges
of the chapatis are joined and the whole is baked. ..."
6. Radiant Healing: The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness by Bellamy Isabel, Isabel Bellamy, Donald MacLean, Maclean Donald (2005)
"If food is needed, toasted home-made bread or chapatis with a scraping of miso
or pate, ... Wholemeal bread or chapatis with pâté, miso or cottage cheese, ..."
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