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For 'offences', the Oriental reading is 'accidents In all large Persian towns there is a numerous class of 'roughs' known as the kullah-numdah (felt-caps; they wear a brown hard-felt low hat without a brim), excitable and reckless, and always ready for disturbance.— Persia Revisited
Next on the steed he laid the numdah square,— The Light of Asia
The term numdah or numnah, which is applied to felt saddle-cloths, is derived from a Hindustani word that signifies— The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice.— The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
As a substitute for a panel, Messrs. Champion and Wilton have devised a numdah lined with spongio-piline and covered with linen, to be used with— The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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