musnud
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of musnud
First recorded in 1755–65; from Urdu, from Arabic masnad “cushion”
Example Sentences
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These are the words: Stramash. jimp, musnud, kudos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
To them their President is a vague figure who occasionally descends from his shadowy musnud to preside over chapel ceremonies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Los Angeles, 15 mi. away, squads of the faithful—praying in two-hour shifts—sent up a rustle of Hosannahs into the shadowy vault of the $2,000,000 Angelus Temple, musnud of the Four-Square Gospel Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had a son who had been placed upon the musnud after the death of his father, Sujah Dowlah, and had been appointed his guardian.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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