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  • noun A decoration for a braid tassel.

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Examples

  • A very talented lady, Hajra operates a paranda-making business, an enterprise that helps support her family.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • Note: In this picture Hajra is showing her paranda.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • (A paranda is used to tie back hair as part of an ornament.)

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • As a woman, the right-hand side of Aamir's body sports a bright pink salwar kameez matched with rani-pink lipstick and pink paranda, while, as a man, he wears a blue sherwani.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2009

  • [3] Sive enim ad sapientiam perveniri potest, non paranda nobis solum ea, sed fruenda etiam

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Verum cum per Telefcopia minus longa non apparerent Obieeta fatis ampliata, vt minoresin illis partes internof - ci pojfesn ad longiora paranda Opticorum ftudia conipi - rarunt, quibus Conuexa, maiorisSpha»rae Conuexitate ter - minata, &c Cauismodo praedicto adiuta, Imaginem, 6c ex iila Apparentiam vkerius dilatarent.

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

  • The death of a young kinsman, Niccolo Cardano, [33] suggested to him a theme which he elaborated in a tract called _De immortalitate paranda_, a work which perished unlamented by its author, and a little later he wrote a treatise on the calculation of the distances between the various heavenly bodies. [

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • c copisi line dedecore paranda! accnmmodatK erziSf mult 6 magiscoicndj: iit qui opibus abun -

    M. Antoni Mureti ... Orationes, epistolæ hymniqve saeri Marc Antoine Muret , Publilius 1660

  • Beruenere ab illo inde tempore; quod in prima editione paranda confum&ram, ad me nonnnllo - mm codicum notkiae, virorum do) 9x) rum re$ mS - tras iuuandi fiudio.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstrata, a Chr. Gottl ... 1788

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