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  • Hence, on one occasion, even a Hindu, a fellow-traveller in a railway-carriage, roused his kindliest sentiments by offering him a handful of cooked "dal" after plastering it over a little pile of "chapatties."

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • He told me he was a pastry cook by trade, and said he could cook chapatties such as we eat; and he understood my explanation why

    Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

  • I shared the curry and chapatties that a trooper brought to him at noon, and I fetched water for him to drink from time to time.

    Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

  • So the Kurd ordered our Syrians, whom he thought Turks, fed too, and we dipped the flat bread (something like our Indian chapatties) into salt and ate, facing one another.

    Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

  • And if you think 20 grand is a lot of chapatties to spend on an adventure holiday, it's still a lot less than the current price of a trip up Everest - and a lot more exclusive.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk Ed Douglas 2010

  • And if you think 20 grand is a lot of chapatties to spend on an adventure holiday, it's still a lot less than the current price of a trip up Everest - and a lot more exclusive.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • That used both by Indians and Arabs for chapatties is the Indian variety known at 'atta' which retains most of the essential parts of the wheat grain.

    tabsir.net tabsir 2010

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