diwan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Rohmer, Sax
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
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