tola
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tola
1605–15; < Hindi tolā ≪ Sanskrit tolaka
Example Sentences
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What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some factories the night closes with a grand dance by all the inhabitants of the dangur tola.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
On the wooden board, called tola, the corpse lies stretched; and round it are women, veiled in the blue-black mantle of Corsican costume, moaning and rocking themselves upon their chairs.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
So I ran on to the tola where an uncle and aunt of mine lived.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
Appropriates many words not taught him, tola for "Kohlen," dals for "Salz."
From The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. by William T. Preyer
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