Bokhara
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Bokharan adjective
Example Sentences
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Chambers testified that he gave Hiss and three other agents Bokhara rugs in January 1937 as gestures of appreciation for their undercover work.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one point, four "high sources" in Washington were so productive, Chambers said, that Moscow sent them rich Bokhara rugs in appreciation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most fascinating of these adventurers was one Joseph Wolff, a disputatious Jew turned Anglican missionary, who set out in 1843 to rescue two British officers held captive in Bokhara.
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Like the NKVD, His Majesty's Foreign Office took little interest in their secretary's love of ancient Samarkand and Bokhara.
From Time Magazine Archive
HISSAR, a district in Central Asia, lying between 66� 30′ and 70� E. and 39� 15′ and 37� N. and dependent on the amir of Bokhara.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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