Lexicographical Neighbors of Darzis
Literary usage of Darzis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love by Andrew Jackson Davis (1881)
"Six darzis have been employed to teach sewing, etc., until Domestic School trained
women are ... More darzis will be employed as they can be arranged. ..."
2. Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the by Henry Miers Elliot (1869)
"... darzis (tailors), and others, who are mentioned in some returns but not in
others. I give their names only; an approximation to their total numbers is ..."
3. Mathurá ; a District Memoir: A District Memoir by Frederic Salmon Growse (1883)
"... modern organization of many so-called castes is attested by the Persian names
which they have thought proper to assume,—for example, the darzis, ..."
4. The Civilian's South India: Some Places and People in Madras by " "Civilian (1921)
"... were gathered together men of merry heart and keen invention and ladies who
were ready to face the plains and whose dresses were not made by darzis. ..."
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