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- noun Plural form of
mohur .
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Examples
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Shah Jahan had gone out himself, scouring the bazaars in the hope of an early apple from Kashmir or Persia or Qandahar, his pockets laden with gold mohurs.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Tunnels and back staircases, greedy palms waiting to be weighted with gold mohurs, mouths that would not flap.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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He would also give him a gold dagger and five thousand rupees in gold mohurs.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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A desolate Ghias sat outside the tent in the battering baying of the wind and pondered his fate—a new baby to feed, a family to keep safe, nothing but three gold mohurs in his cummerbund.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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In return, Prince Shuja dipped his hand again and again into bags of gold mohurs and silver rupees and threw them into the crowd to give thanks to the Empire that had come to honor his mother.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Tunnels and back staircases, greedy palms waiting to be weighted with gold mohurs, mouths that would not flap.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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A desolate Ghias sat outside the tent in the battering baying of the wind and pondered his fate—a new baby to feed, a family to keep safe, nothing but three gold mohurs in his cummerbund.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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In return, Prince Shuja dipped his hand again and again into bags of gold mohurs and silver rupees and threw them into the crowd to give thanks to the Empire that had come to honor his mother.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Shah Jahan had gone out himself, scouring the bazaars in the hope of an early apple from Kashmir or Persia or Qandahar, his pockets laden with gold mohurs.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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He would also give him a gold dagger and five thousand rupees in gold mohurs.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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