doura

American  

[door-uh] / ˈdʊər ə /

Or dourah

noun

1. a variant of durra.

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doura British  

/ ˈdʊərə /

noun

1. a variant of durra

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Example Sentences

And the silence, broken only by the faint rustle of the doura, was startling, was almost dreadful.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Thus while the world regarded Egypt as a vast granary, her soldiers were obliged to purchase 4,000 tons of doura and 1,000 tons of barley from India and Russia on which to begin the campaign.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston

Here are observed some vineyards, and a few patches of doura.

From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael

As I turned, far off in Cairo I saw the first lights glittering across the fields of doura, silvery white, like diamonds.

From The Spell of Egypt by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Giraffes and antelopes and ostriches are provided with the doura corn that grows in the interior.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various