Definition of Chowris

1. chowri [n] - See also: chowri

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chowris

chowderheaded
chowderheads
chowdering
chowderlike
chowders
chowed
chowhound
chowhounds
chowing
chowkidar
chowkidars
chowline
chowlines
chowri
chowries
chowris (current term)
chowry
chows
chowse
chowsed
chowses
chowsing
chowtime
chowtimes
choy sum
chrch
chrematistic
chrematistics
chreotechnics
chresard

Literary usage of Chowris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus by Horace Hayman Wilson (1871)
"The numerous banners undulate like waves as they play before the wind of the chowris, which hover about like swans; and now the elephants advance, ..."

2. A Handbook for Visitors to Agra and Its Neighbourhood by Henry George Keene (1888)
"... a curious private manufactory of chowris (fly-brushes) resembling in shape those of yak's tails, so common in Northern India, but made in this instance ..."

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