Tanjore
Britishnoun
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Fine china and traditional Indian art was layered over them: Tanjore paintings of gods encrusted with gold, Ravi Varma prints that their owners had embellished with silks a century earlier.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tanjore, the densely populated, highly irrigated "garden of southern India," they scorched the fertile earth into a desert.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Tanjore in south India came two emissaries of Sri Amblavana Desigar, head of a sannyasi order of Hindu ascetics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sweeping past the historic rock of Trichinopoly, it breaks at the island of Seringam into two channels, which enclose between them the delta of Tanjore, the garden of southern India.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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