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Baghdad   Listen
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Baghdad  n.  (Geography) The capital city of Iraq. Population (2000) = nk.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Baghdad" Quotes from Famous Books



... Catalan, of Russian 'pope' and Coptic abuna, of dragoman and Calmuck, of Egyptian maulawi and Afghan mullah, Neapolitan and sheik, and the nightmare of wild poses, colours, stuffs and garbs, the yellow-green kefie of the Bedouin, shawl-turbans of Baghdad, the voluminous rose-silk tob of women, and face-veils, and stark distorted nakedness, and sashes of figured muslin, and the workman's cords, and the red tarboosh. About four, for very weariness, I was sitting on a door-steep, ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel

... says that "The art of gold brocades is older than the Code of Manu.... The excellence of the art passed in the long course of ages, from one place to another; and Babylon, Tarsus, Alexandria, Baghdad, Damascus, Antioch, Tabriz, Sicily, and Tripoli successively became celebrated for their gold and silver-wrought tissues, silks, and brocades.... Through every disguise (and mingling of style) it is not impossible ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford



Words linked to "Baghdad" :   Iraq, Al-Iraq, Republic of Iraq, capital of Iraq, Irak



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