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Definition of Dhurrie
1. a cotton rug made in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dhurrie
Literary usage of Dhurrie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Including a Summer in the Upper Karun by Isabella Lucy Bird (1891)
"My dhurrie will not be dry again this winter. The mules could not get in, the
baggage was unloaded ... The dhurrie was trampled into the mud by clayey feet. ..."
2. 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. ..."
3. Indian Life in Town and Country by Herbert Compton (1904)
"The floor is carpeted with a dhurrie, and the disposal of the furniture reflects
resource if it sometimes leaves little space; whilst the piano at once ..."
4. Among the Tibetans by Isabella Lucy Bird (1894)
"6 in., weighing, with poles and iron pins, 75 Ibs., a trestle bed and cork
mattress, a folding table and chair, and an Indian dhurrie as a carpet. ..."
5. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"dhurrie—East Indian thick cotton drapery, made with warp ribs and broad weft
stripes in blue or red. ..."
6. The Indian Alps and how We Crossed Them: Being a Narrative of Two Years by Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli (1876)
"... admitted a flood of light ; in addition to which I must, forsooth, catch my
foot in the dhurrie, ..."
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