Bokhara
Americannoun
noun
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Like the NKVD, His Majesty's Foreign Office took little interest in their secretary's love of ancient Samarkand and Bokhara.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most fascinating of these adventurers was one Joseph Wolff, a disputatious Jew turned Anglican missionary, who set out in 1843 to rescue two British officers held captive in Bokhara.
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Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul.
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The episode, said the newspaper, reminded one of "the lover who promised the whole of Samarkand and Bokhara for a mole on the cheek of his beloved."
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It was so expensive that all you could hear was the page's voice as he walked by you; his footfalls made no noise in the extra heavy Bokhara.
From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley
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