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- noun Plural form of
hamsa .
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Examples
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In fact, right before 9/11, I started doing my first line with lucky charms and peace signs and I did a lot with red strings, evil eyes, hamsas...
Meredith Barnett: The Jewelry Line We (and Hollywood) Can't Get Enough Of Meredith Barnett 2011
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In fact, right before 9/11, I started doing my first line with lucky charms and peace signs and I did a lot with red strings, evil eyes, hamsas...
Meredith Barnett: The Jewelry Line We (and Hollywood) Can't Get Enough Of Meredith Barnett 2011
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I don't know exactly what I will do with the little hamsas I now have from Rabat, but I am sure they will be gifts of some sort.
Los Moros y Los Christianos Field Notes 2007
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I don't know exactly what I will do with the little hamsas I now have from Rabat, but I am sure they will be gifts of some sort.
Archive 2007-11-01 Field Notes 2007
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Two young hamsas, or wild ducks, who came to feed there, made friends with him, and one day, when they had become very intimate with him, they said to the tortoise:
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!"
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!"
Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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Two young hamsas, or wild ducks, who came to feed there, made friends with him.
Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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A young boy carries a tray of pita bread as he passes the painted hamsas that decorate the entrance of his home in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab neighbourhood on November 24, 2011.
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A young boy carries a tray of pita bread as he passes the painted hamsas that decorate the entrance of his home in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab neighbourhood on November 24, 2011.
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