dhurrie

English

Alternative forms

• dhurri, dhurry, durry

Etymology

From Hindi दरी (darī).

Noun

dhurrie (plural dhurries)

1. A thick, flat-woven cotton Indian rug or carpet.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 262:

     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 […].

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

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

   • 2009 March 12, Julie Scelfo, “The $300 Makeover: West Village Studio”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• hurried