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- noun Plural form of
chowry .
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Examples
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The tails of the latter were in great demand for use as "chowries" wherewith to keep off the flies.
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They are exported to the plains of India, where they are bought for several purposes -- their principal use being for "chowries," or fly-brushes, as already observed.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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The yak's-tail chowries, or fly-brushes, and the fans of peacocks 'feathers, are emblems of royalty throughout the East.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Two cases are filled with gaudy trappings and caparisons -- horse and camel saddles with velvet and leather work, gold embroidery and cut-cloth work (_appliqué_); an elephant howdah of silver; chowries of yak tails with handles of sandal-wood, chased gold or carved ivory; gold-embroidered holsters and elaborate whips which will hold no more ornamentation than has been crowded upon them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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The embroidered chattah (umbrella); the afthaadah (embroidered sun); and chowries of the peacock's feathers, are also out-of-door distinctions allowed only to this lady and the members of the royal family.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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On either side of the throne stood a nobleman with chowries of peacock's-feathers in gold handles, which they kept waving continually over the King's person.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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The chowries and afthaadah are flourished before him, and on each side; the royal carriage is guarded by the irregular horse in great numbers, and immediately followed by led horses, very richly caparisoned, their grooms neatly dressed in white, with turbans of red and green.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Next followed a full band of music, drums, fifes, &c.; then the important dunkah, which announces to the public the lady's rank: she is enclosed within the elevated towering chundole, on each side of which the afthaadah and chowries are carried by well-dressed men, generally confidential servants, appointed to this service.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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He knew that the chowries of India were imported across the
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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A double set of palanquin-bearers were stretched under the verandas; syces were fanning the horses with their chowries; tailors and various craftsmen were at work in the shade, while a herd of consumers, butlers, and other Indian domestics, were loitering about, or very busy doing nothing.
Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820
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