Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
surma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A preparation of antimony with which Mohammedan men anoint their eyelids.
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- noun A
preparation ofantimony with whichMohammedan menanoint theireyelids .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Seeing how the soorma wasteth, seeing how the ant-hill grows,
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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As the sooty soorma pleases, lighted by a brilliant eye. '
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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I then disguised myself in female attire, taking pains to make myself look as handsome as possible with the assistance of my mother, who put soorma into my eyelids, and arranged my eyebrows, stained my hands with hinna, and directed me how to ogle and smile.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791
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I then disguised myself in female attire, taking pains to make myself look as handsome as possible with the assistance of my mother, who put soorma into my eyelids, and arranged my eyebrows, stained my hands with hinna, and directed me how to ogle and smile.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 04 Anonymous 1791
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As the sooty soorma pleases, lighted by a brilliant eye. "
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"Seeing how the soorma wasteth, seeing how the ant-hill grows,
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