"dhurry" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dhurries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dhurry (plural dhurries)
  1. Alternative form of dhurrie. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: dhurrie
    Sense id: en-dhurry-en-noun-G4ypOU7m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1913, Blackwood’s Magazine, page 613",
          "text": "After dinner we moved to other chairs, which the servants had set out on a dhurry (a carpet of sorts), and I didn’t even get my bridge, for the talk of spooks went on until I very nearly fell asleep, I was so tired of it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Ingrid Albuquerque-Solomon, One Day at a Time, Bangalore: Berean Bay Media House Private Limited",
          "text": "To add to it, while the other boys ate from the canteen or had brought along little tiffin boxes for their lunch, the Birla boys would have a veritable feast laid out for them on a dhurry (a type of carpet) in a vacant verandah, with the full meal paraphernalia of trays, bowls, glasses and spoons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, Skira, page 217",
          "text": "Here Ajmat Dev is portrayed seated on a dhurry with white and brown stripes while he smokes a hookah. In one hand he holds a rosary, in the other a ripe mango. A second mango lies on the dhurry.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, section 1, page 586",
          "text": "[…] oh, even the clay khaddar-turbaned and dhoti-loinclothed fakir snake charmer sitting padmasana on his dhurry mat swaying from shrab and blowing jadu musica ficta, or the kind in the background of daravani films, on his miniature pungi flute in front of his jhow basket and donation bowl while diminutive papier mache nude bayaderes were scaling ambary ropes which the serpentwood flute’s notes caused to rise up from the basket for them to escape being pursued by a nittany hissing cobra . . . Fascinating!",
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