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  • "The word 'gori' - which literally means fair and has become a byword for a beautiful woman

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • "Would you like to be the guest of honour at N'gori's little thanksgiving service?"

    Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Bosambo returned the messenger, with presents more valueless, and an assurance of friendship more sonorous, more complete in rhetoric and aptness of hyperbole, and when the messenger had gone Bosambo showed his appreciation of N'gori's love by doubling the guard about the Ochori city and sending a strong picket under his chief headman to hold the river bend.

    Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Chief of the eugenists was Kobolo, the boy's uncle, and N'gori's own brother.

    Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

  • And just keep in mind these inspirational words: Shieraki gori ha yeraan!

    Game of Thrones: How to Speak (and Curse!) Like the Dothraki 2011

  • In addition to claims that it goes well with other ice cream flavors like strawberry and chocolate, fans of the special sauce say it tastes great on kaki-gori (shaved ice) and on toast, and that it makes a great mixer for shochu (distilled liquor).

    Soy Sauce For Ice Cream | Impact Lab 2007

  • At Trillium Health Centre's Maharani and Maharaja Gala, an extravagant evening featuring indoor fireworks and South Asian food and entertainment, an 85-year-old gori white woman named Hazel was belle of the ball.

    local 2006

  • At Trillium Health Centre's Maharani and Maharaja Gala, an extravagant evening featuring indoor fireworks and South Asian food and entertainment, an 85-year-old gori white woman named Hazel was belle of the ball.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • But it was the name that the French gave to this island that stuck, gori.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2005 2005

  • § Desi sahibs will receive the services of the gori mem at reasonable prices.

    Heera Mandi On The Highway ps 2004

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  • "Some, like Maxim, seem to pride themselves on pushing the envelope of good taste even further than they do in their home markets. The magazine’s July issue includes the feature “48 Ways to Get a Gori�? (gori is Hindi for fair-skinned woman, and is used in this context to mean a foreign white one)."

    The New York Times, In India, Magazines That Translate Well, by Heather Timmons, July 14, 2008

    July 15, 2008

  • while now a colloquiallism for 'white girl', it's used in the poetic sense to refer to a beauty (whereas an "ugly", dark-skinned woman is called kali, meaning "black")

    lene tuhje o gori

    aayenge teri sajnaa

    "Don't worry, beautiful one

    Your beloved is coming"

    May 23, 2009

  • WOW....are you serious! I tried to be nice when it came to race. Nevermind!

    May 23, 2009