persian

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  1. Of or pertaining to Persia, in any of the various limitations of the name. (a) An ancient region near the Persian Gulf, nearly corresponding to the modern Farsistan, and the nucleus of the Persian empire. (b) An ancient empire under the Achæmenians, and later restored under the Sassanians, comprising at its height the greater part of western Asia with Egypt, etc. (c) A later kingdom, now extending from Russia and the Caspian southward to the Persian Gulf, and from Turkey eastward to Afghanistan and Baluchistan (called Iran by the Persians).
  2. Hence (from the luxury of the ancient Persians)
  3. Splendid; magnificent; luxurious; soft. I do not like the fashion of your graments; you will say they are Persian attire; but let them be changed. Shak., Lear, iii. 6. 85. Our men are not onlie become willow, but a great manie, through Persian delicacie crept in among vs, altogither of straw. Harrison, I. 212, col. 1, quoted by Ellis.
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  1. = Old French persien, persan, French persan = Spanish Portuguese Italian persiano, from Latin as if persianus, from Persia, persis, from Greek Περσίς, Persia, from OPers. Pārsa, Persian Pārs (later Arabic Fārs), Persia. CF. Parsee.
 

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