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- noun Plural form of
miskal .
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Examples
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And the present was a cup of ruby a span high85 the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth; 86 and an hundred thousand miskals of Indian lign-aloes and a slave-girl like a shining moon.
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Then I left her, as though I were leaving Paradise, and returned to my poor crib where I opened the kerchief and found in it fifty miskals of gold.
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“Below twenty miskals or dinars, nothing; but on that amount half a dinar for every score and so on proportionally. 316” Q “On silver?”
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And the present was a cup of ruby a span high, the inside of which was adorned with precious pearls; and a bed covered with the skin of the serpent which swalloweth the elephant, which skin hath spots each like a dinar and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth; and a hundred thousand miskals of Indian lign aloes and a slave girl like a shining moon.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals [FN#223] of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Aleppine twist and sigh of Al-Iráq 2 miskals each; also 2 okes of tongue-sucking, mouth and lip kissing, all to be pounded and mixed.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Then I left her, as though I were leaving Paradise, and returned to my poor crib where I opened the kerchief and found in it fifty miskals of gold.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Then take some extract of the incense of the kiss, the teeth and the waist, 2 miskals of each; also take 100 kisses of pomegranate rubbed and rounded, of which 50 small ones are to be sugared, 30 pigeon-fashion and 20 after the fashion of little birds.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Coast, and was converted into ducats (miskals) and trinkets, chains, bracelets, anklets, and adornments for weapons.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Then he loaded his sleeve with a thousand miskals of gold and sallied forth a-walking and swaying gracefully as he paced along.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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