Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See jalee.

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Examples

  • The second control method is the use of a traditional Rajasthani architectural motif called the ‘jaali’ or jali, which is a stone screen.

    Pearl Academy of Fashion by Morphogenesis | Inhabitat 2008

  • For those of you who are not familiar with the term "griot" or jali, or jeli, depending on where the griot is from a quick explanation: the griot is the repository of the history of his or her people, knowing geneologies and major epic songs by heart.

    Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

  • For those of you who are not familiar with the term "griot" or jali, or jeli, depending on where the griot is from a quick explanation: the griot is the repository of the history of his or her people, knowing geneologies and major epic songs by heart.

    Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

  • For those of you who are not familiar with the term "griot" or jali, or jeli, depending on where the griot is from a quick explanation: the griot is the repository of the history of his or her people, knowing geneologies and major epic songs by heart.

    Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

  • For those of you who are not familiar with the term "griot" or jali, or jeli, depending on where the griot is from a quick explanation: the griot is the repository of the history of his or her people, knowing geneologies and major epic songs by heart.

    Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

  • Vee said ... jali, I found you through your comment on Dining Hall.

    Bajarichi Bhakari Anjali 2007

  • His lilac-colored words, floating in my inner-vision against the intricate silhouettes of my jali screens, were bright pleasures in those high summer days.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • We came to with the brass light of early morning shining through the jali.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Smiling Kumarima once found me looking up through the lattice of a _jali_ screen at the fat moon on a rare night when the sky was clear and healthy and shouted me away, _don't be looking at that thing, it will call the blood out of you, little devi, and you will be the devi no more_.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • We came to with the brass light of early morning shining through the _jali_.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

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