Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A gold coin, equal to 15 rupees, that was used in British India in the 1800s and early 1900s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A modern gold coin of India under the British dominion, equivalent to 15 rupees, or about $7; also, a gold coin of the native princes of India from the sixteenth century onward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21 (in 1913).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a Persian gold
coin - noun a gold
coin of British India whose value was fifteenrupees
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Shah Jahan had given him a bag of gold, which the fakir had waved away, accepting only one gold mohur instead and leaving him with this prophecy—that a son would be born to him who would be, in the end, the death of him.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Shah Jahan had given him a bag of gold, which the fakir had waved away, accepting only one gold mohur instead and leaving him with this prophecy—that a son would be born to him who would be, in the end, the death of him.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Shah Jahan had given him a bag of gold, which the fakir had waved away, accepting only one gold mohur instead and leaving him with this prophecy—that a son would be born to him who would be, in the end, the death of him.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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So it was that he came here to the entrance to this underground temple complex, with five pennies and a mohur.
Archive 2007-07-01 cavalaxis 2007
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So it was that he came here to the entrance to this underground temple complex, with five pennies and a mohur.
The 13th Page cavalaxis 2007
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He saw a woman standing under the shadow of the gold mohur tree.
Burmese Days 2002
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Elizabeth like some friendly saurian monster, among the faint crooked shadows of the gold mohur stems.
Burmese Days 2002
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There was no lawn, but instead a shrubbery of native trees and bushes — gold mohur trees like vast umbrellas of blood-red bloom, frangipanis with creamy, stalkless flowers, purple bougainvillea, scarlet hibiscus and the pink
Burmese Days 2002
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It rustled through the wide domes of the gold mohur trees, and fluttered the fragments of the anonymous letter that Flory had thrown over the gate half an hour earlier.
Burmese Days 2002
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I love that sombre yellow colour the maidan has, and those gold mohur trees, like blobs of crimson.
Burmese Days 2002
chained_bear commented on the word mohur
"'...the smaller bags hold mohurs, ducats, louis d'ors, joes and all kinds of foreign gold by weight of five hundred each.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 7
March 16, 2008