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Definition of Kilims
1. kilim [n] - See also: kilim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilims
Literary usage of Kilims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"kilims, while products of the Orient, are not rugs, for they possess no pile and
... kilims resemble the Kashmir or Shemakha rugs and are made in the same ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"kilims, while products of the Orient, are not rugs, for they possess no pile and
... kilims resemble the Kashmir or Shemakha rugs and are made in the same ..."
3. Art Panels from the Hand Looms of the Far Orient by Garabed Thomas Pushman (1911)
"SHIRVAN kilims.—These kilims are altogether different from the Senna and Kurd kilims
... They are a great deal heavier and coarser than the Senna kilims, ..."
4. Oriental Rugs in the Home: A Monograph by Nahigian brothers (1913)
"The Senna kilims are the lightest, closest and finest quality of the kilims.
They are woven by Persian maids and comprise a noteworthy part of the girl-s ..."
5. Life and Light for Woman by Woman's Board of Missions (1907)
"A framework of poles was laid from the top of this low wall to niches in the
opposite rocks, over which goats' hair kilims or rush mattings are doubtless ..."
6. Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries by United States Dept. of State, Dept. of State, United States, Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1900)
"It makes rugs, kilims, bags, and stockings. It has several coal deposits, ...
It makes kilims, cloth, and stockings, and raises a large quantity of rice. ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"... this district we may justly ask what else can have produced glacial phenomena
so near the equator. On the other hand, we may adduce the fact that kilims ..."
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