musnud
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of musnud
First recorded in 1755–65; from Urdu, from Arabic masnad “cushion”
Example Sentences
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To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Saratoga, oldest and physically most beautiful U. S. track, considers itself the musnud of U. S. horse racing.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the words: Stramash. jimp, musnud, kudos.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dutch thought it of so much consequence as to keep a force at Songo, and to place the present rajah on that musnud.
From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry
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