Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mandil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
turban ornamented withimitation gold orsilver embroidery .
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Examples
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The observatory, or man mundil, is on the river's bank, and affords a pretty view from its terraces, which are covered with disks and semicircles and magical figures cut in stone.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858
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Thus with its Liberty Greece loft its literary fame, and, in lefs than a Century after it became a Roman Province, it degenerated neatly into a ftate of Barbd - itfm~-8tc tranfit Gloria mundil — This was d Mow from which, probably, Learning hai been never able to recover.
Letters Concerning Education: Addressed to a Gentleman Entering at the ... 1785
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