diwan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Her beautiful face a mask of anguish, Miska cowered upon the diwan, watching the closed doors.
From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Miska, with a sobbing moan, sank upon the diwan.
From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax
The word is derived from the Arabian diwan, and is commonly used in India to denote a minister of the Mogul government, or in modern days the prime minister of a native state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
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 Rohmer, Sax
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