musnud

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Nabob sat on a high cushion, called the musnud, placed on a daïs which was raised several feet above the ground.

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  1. In India, a raised seat, overspread with carpets or embroidered cloth and furnished with pillows for the back and elbow. This forms the seat of honor, as in the zenana, where it is the seat of the lady of the house, and privileged visitors are invited to share it as a mark of respect and favor. It is also the ceremonial seat or throne of a rajah. Also masnad. They spread fresh carpets, and prepared the royal musnud, covering it with a magnificent shawl. Hajji Baba of Ispahan, p. 142. (Yule and Burnell.)
  2. Musnud-carpet a piece of stuff about two yards square (sometimes carpeting, but frequently brocade, embroidered silk, or the like), lined and wadded, laid on the floor to receive the musnud. Persons conversing with the occupants of the musnud, if inferior in rank, sit on the carpet — on its extreme edge if they wish to express humility.

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  • On his accession to the musnud, five years ago, he placed a half-brother there, a stupid fellow, about twenty-five years of age. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • Since the Dutch abandoned Sambas, three sultans have reigned on this musnud (within fifty years, or thereabout). —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • There still they tell us, from their glassy case, He was the last, the best of all that noble race Eastern Serenade BY THE HONOURABLE SINJIN MUFF The minarets wave on the plain of Stamboul, And the breeze of the evening blows freshly and cool; The voice of the musnud is heard from the west, And kaftan and kalpac have gone to their rest. —  The Bon Gaultier Ballads
  • Thus we learn from the writer that a 'musnud,' which in Byron's day was a sofa, now signifies a nightingale. —  The Bon Gaultier Ballads
  • As soon as the legitimate son of the Nabob came to the musnud, there was no ground for keeping this woman any longer in that situation; and upon an application of the Company to Mahomed Reza Khân to know who ought to have the right of superiority, he answered, as he ought to have done, that, though all the women of the seraglio ought to have honor, yet the mother of the Nabob ought to have the superiority of it. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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  1. from Hindustani masnad, a cushion, seat, throne, from Arabic misnad, a cushion for the back, from sanada, lean against.
 

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