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Definition of Chowries
1. chowry [n] - See also: chowry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chowries
Literary usage of Chowries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"... gay with lines of gold-bedight chowries: ornaments of divers kinds, raining
floods of morning radiance and by their light covering the heavens with many ..."
2. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Aristophanes, Bhāvadevasūri, Richard Thomas Elliott, William Joseph Myles Starkie (1919)
"The procession of elefant, horse, chowries, umbrella, and water-jug, headed by
the court arrived at the spot where Sundara slept. The horse then neighed, ..."
3. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1840)
"chowries, and satin umbrellas are arranged on his right and left hand, and the
band of music plays in a large building to the southward. ..."
4. Buddhist and Christian Gospels by Albert Joseph Edmunds (1908)
"... and thousand-ringed: chowries with golden staves were fanned; Unseen were they
who carried the chowries and the canopy. The hermit with matted hair, ..."
5. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1881)
"An umbrella of silver brocade was held over his head, and the chowries were waved
about him on either side.24 He was also honoured with the royal insignia ..."
6. The Himalayan Districts of Kooloo, Lahoul, and Spiti by Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1871)
"a fine silky wool, are frequently grey, or of a creamy white, and these tails,
termed chowries, which fetch from 2s. to 6s. apiece, form an article of ..."
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