Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See durra.

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Examples

  • I opened the doora little wider to ask him to enter, then I froze.

    True Romance '66 2010

  • In the houses of the rich, bread was made of wheat; the poorer classes being contented with bakes of barley, or of _doora_ (holcus sorghum), which last is still so commonly used by them; for Herodotus is as wrong in saying that they thought it "the greatest disgrace to live on wheat and barley," as that "no one drank out of any but bronze (or brazen) cups."

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • The cereals which they cultivated were wheat, barley, and apparently sorghum (Holcus sorghum, Linnaeus), the doora of the modern fellaheen.

    Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris. § 1. The Popular Rites 1922

  • The cereals which they cultivated were wheat, barley, and apparently sorghum (Holcus sorghum, Linnaeus), the doora of the modern fellaheen.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • The cereals which they cultivated were wheat, barley, and apparently sorghum (_Holcus sorghum, _ Linnaeus), the _doora_ of the modern fellaheen.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • The camels were picketed, the Arabs threw their sleeping-mats down in the shade, and the prisoners, after receiving a ration of dates and of doora, were told that they might do what they would during the heat of the day, and that the Moolah would come to them before sunset.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • But presently one of the weary doora camels came down with a crash, its limbs starred out as if it had split asunder, and the caravan had to come down to its old sober gait.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • These were loaded with the doora and the water-skins of the raiders, but

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The prisoners also began to thaw, and eagerly ate the doora which was served out for their breakfasts.

    A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • The products are cotton and the grain they call doora, a kind of millet, the latter of which grows on enormous cane-like stalks, which, chopped up, form

    Three Months in the Soudan 1885

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