Word: bokharas
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...collection are several examples of textile work, presented by Charles B. Hoyt. This includes embroidery work of Turkey, Algeria, and Bokhara, the latter famous for its rugs. A section of an old Algerian curtain, purple netting on a dark background, is one of the finest specimens in the bizarre exhibit...
...textile gift of Mrs. R. H. Monks, recently made to the Museum, includes a sixteenth century chasuble in an excellent state of preseration, an eighteenth century English embroidery showing the influence of Indian painted fabries, a fragment of early sixteenth century tapestry, and a Bokhara embroidery that is dated early as the eighteenth century...
...knew where he could get them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara, and Tiflis and Bagdad; traded them to Jews for prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only the jangling of diamonds. Jacob Dreicer rented a basement room, sorted his pearls, graded them, matched them into the finest necklaces. He made up a necklace...
...Assumed by the early princes of Afghanistan, Sind and Bokhara with a significance roughly equivalent to "Sultan" ; elsewhere in the East equivalent to "Commander," "Lord" (in the British sense) or simply "chieftain." The Occidental "Admiral" was derived or corrupted from the Oriental "Amir," "Emir," "Ameer...
...Turkestan and Bokhara, the waters of the River Amu-Oxus were in such a hurry to get to the Aral Sea that they leapt the banks, flooded the country, submerged more than 2,000 villages, caused much loss of life...