Nishapur
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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To this day, the color of Nishapur turquoise serves as the global standard against which all other turquoise is judged.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022
For thousands of years, from empire to empire, from even before Islam came to Iran, it’s been mined outside of Mashhad, in the neighboring Nishapur, where some of Iran’s most beloved classical poets are buried.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022
The thriving cities where the art was fashioned�Marlik, Shapur, Kashan, Nishapur, Tepe Hissar�have crumbled into oblivion.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if at Nishapur and Babylon The cup runs dry, we'll fill it later on, And here where Cherwell soothes the fretful don In flowing sherbet pledge our easeful sage.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various
While Alroy dictated peace on his own terms in the palaces of Nishapur, Abner, having reduced Louristan, crossed the mountains, and entered Persia with the reinforcements he had received from Jabaster.
From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
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