chenar

• “On the banks of the Ungerengeri flourished the banana, and overtopping it by seventy feet and more, shot up the stately mparamusi, the rival in beauty of the Persian chenar and”

  How I Found Livingstone

• “In Kashmir, Farsi khanna, Persian food, is the supreme cuisine; and of the chenar, the transplanted plane tree, or sycamore, of Persia (so prominent in both Persian and Indian Moghul painting) it is even said that its shade is medicinal.”

  Among the Believers

• “It forms one side of a courtyard, which is shaded by a group of magnificent chenar trees.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “Vehicles of many and strange sorts were drawn up in the shade of a chenar, under whose wide branches the Baines family was faring sumptuously on biscuits and brandy and water.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “A halt was called for lunch under a blue pine, where we quickly discovered how paltry its shade is in comparison with the generous screen cast by a chenar; scarcely has the heated traveller picked out a seemingly umbrageous spot to recline upon when, lo!”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “In the compound stood a fine group of chenar trees”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “A restless confusion of dragons from Leh, lotus from the Dal Lake, and the ever-present chenar leaf, hobnob together with British -- very British -- crests and monograms on the tops of tables and the seats of chairs -- portions of the furniture that should be left severely plain.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “Nothing approaches the great circle of solid coolness thrown by a big chenar.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “We made a fairly early start, getting off about six, and, having skirted the town and passed the neat little Zenana Mission Hospital, we had a pretty but uneventful march of some six miles to Bawan, where, under a big chenar, we halted for the greater part of the day.”

  A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil

• “Great chenar trees, growing in all their luxuriant beauty out of the rocky ground by the water-course, mark the hillside with a patch of green in contrast to the background of sombre brown.”

  The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War

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