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

The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease.

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

By help of the irrigation thus contrived, the great plateau of Iran will produce good crops of grain, rice, wheat, barley, Indian corn, doura, millet, and sesame.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

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

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

The mountains drew farther apart, revealing in their place numerous villages, and fields of white Indian corn, doura, and sugar-cane.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules