- 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
No diwan of his is extant, though he composed verse of his own and probably a good deal of what he ascribed to earlier poets.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
We then mounted a carriage, fought our way through the donkeys, and in half an hour found ourselves, chibuk in mouth and coffee-cup in hand, seated on the diwan of my friend Larking's hospitable home.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He directed the intolerable gaze of his awful eyes upon the man who sat, teeth tightly clenched, watching him from the diwan.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Miska, with a sobbing moan, sank upon the diwan.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
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