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Khotan

/ ˈkəʊˈtɑːn /

noun

  1. another name for Hotan

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Samir turned back to the crowd and nodded at a straight-faced horseman, who said, “I heard about the Rogue Legion, and those guys in Khotan really hated the saddles you sold them.”

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“If the funding drops, all of that momentum will be lost,” said Khotan Harmon, senior program officer for the city of Austin.

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When foreign archaeologists found an ancient town, they defined it by longitude and latitude, and then tried to match its site with one of Xuanzang’s vanished cities: Khotan, Kucha, Agni.

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On his other he carried a plain gym bag with a folded 3-by-6-foot Khotan carpet woven in the East Turkestan region of Central Asia circa 1800, worth about $60,000.

A chinoiserie table purchased at the venerable San Francisco shop Gump’s in the ’20s by Goldwyn’s maternal grandfather, the Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatist Sidney Howard, sits atop the den’s pale Khotan rug.

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