- a variation of dewan.
diwan
Britishnoun
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Crossing to a glass case which rested upon a table near the diwan he struck it lightly with his hand.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
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
It was a little, whey-faced, black-bearded Turk, coiled up in the usual conglomerate posture upon a calico-covered diwan, at the end of a long, bare, large- windowed room.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Stuart's hands convulsively clutched the covering of the diwan as the sinister figure approached.
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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