dhurrie

plural dhurries · alternative dhurri · alternative dhurry · alternative durry

1. A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet.

   They were hospitable and loved company We sat on a dhurrie under the open sky.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 359

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   The eye-flies had colonized the top of an almeira; the red stains on the durry were thicker, for Mohammed Latif had slept here during his imprisonment and spat a good deal […].

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 262

   Ms. Unger saw potential in objects that were stylish but in need of cleaning, so she took Ms. Rich’s cotton dhurrie home for a wash and spent half an hour scrubbing a flea market coffee table with Murphy Oil Soap.

   2009 March 12, Julie Scelfo, “The $300 Makeover: West Village Studio”, in New York Times