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- noun Plural form of
chedi .
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Examples
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Beyond this, one paved road leads back to a larger, more traditional wat, its sparkling chedis surrounded by wildflowers.
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Phra: chedis are proportionally thicker and less elongate.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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But whereas in the Phra: chedis these spires are simple, in the Phra: prangs they bear three crescents representing the trident of Śiva and appear like barbed arrows.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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The ruins were fantastic i wander around imagining what it must have been like to be a Thai prince and princess worshipping in one of these chedis hundreds of years ago.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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We stop at a dilapidated monastery and series of huge conical stone chedis.
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