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Indian Desert

American  

noun

  1. Thar Desert.


Indian Desert British  

noun

  1. another name for the Thar Desert

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In reality, there would have been more new-manager bounce gained by tossing a stone into the Great Indian Desert.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025

He breathes on the Earth and one place "became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and", Kipling says, "you can look them out on the map."

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

There may be desolation in the great Indian Desert to the westward, and there is desolation on the open seas; but the desolation of Amber is beyond the loneliness either of land or sea.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Scott had known her more or less for some three years, meeting her, as a rule, under canvas when his camp and her brother's joined for a day on the edge of the Indian Desert.

From The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling by Kipling, Rudyard