a region in southern Egypt and the Sudan, north of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
Kingdom of Nubia, an ancient state in Nubia, 2000 b.c.–a.d. 1400.
Lake Nubia. Lake Nassar.
1855–60; < Latin nūb ( ēs ) a cloud + -ia
First recorded in 1650–60; from Medieval Latin Nuba, Nubia, from Latin Nuba (singular), Nubae (plural), Nubaeī (from Greek Noûbai, Noubaîoi, the name of a people in southern Egypt and northern Sudan; further origin obscure; possibly from Egyptian nwb “gold”) + -ia noun suffix
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In a low chair before the open window sat the widow knitting a blue and white nubia.
From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
Here's a nubia, too, you kin have; it'll look better than that little hat you had on last night.
From Lovey Mary by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
Her mother stood with her back turned toward the raw April wind as they talked, her old nubia tied loosely about her head and neck, and her hands red with the cold.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
Symes shoved up the shade to see the lovely Pearline Starr, with her head tied in a nubia, fighting her way through his front gate.
From The Lady Doc by Lockhart, Caroline
And I saw that she was wearing a skirt made of a man's plaid shawl, and about her shoulders was a rosy, old-fashioned nubia.
From Friendship Village by Gale, Zona
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