- a variation of dewan.
diwan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The rolling, ever-rolling years of time Are as a diwan of Arabian song; The poet, headstrong and supremely strong, Refuses to repeat a single rhyme.
From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein
Miska, with a sobbing moan, sank upon the diwan.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Finding the room to be occupied only by Miska, he crossed rapidly to the diwan, bending over her with infinite pity and tenderness.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
But lower and lower she cowered upon the diwan.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
He was lying upon a deep diwan, which was covered with leopard-skins and which occupied one corner of the most extraordinary room he had ever seen or ever could have imagined.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
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