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- noun The
monetary unit of Kutch prior to 1947, divided into 24 dokda.
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Examples
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Although focused on all the animals, Murray has paid special attention to the giant pandas, elephants, gorillas, lions, Komodo dragons and kori bustards.
Fed faces: Suzan Murray is the National Zoo's animal health-care keeper 2010
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Yaaayyy :-D I have had amazing meals at Mahesh Lunch Home - prawn ghassi, neer dosa, kori rotti...its divine food isnt it?
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She growled faintly in her throat at sight of the outer door, apparently left open by Liandrin in her flight, but she dismissed the da-covale from her mind for the moment and concentrated on the man who stood there examining the screen that held the image of a kori, a huge spotted cat from the Sen T-jore.
Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005
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Hokkaido and Formosa, comprising altogether 660 districts (gun or kori), 63 municipalities (shi), 1138 towns (cho or machi), and 11,801 villages (son or mura).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Two of them had steamer trunks on their heads, and two carried huge kori.
The Lady of the Decoration Little, Frances, 1863-1941 1906
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Two of them had steamer trunks on their heads, and two carried huge kori.
The Lady of the Decoration Frances Little 1902
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It corresponded to the modern kori or gun, and its nearest English equivalent is "district."
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Provinces, kuni, in reign of Seimu; classification, and subdivision into kori, under Daiho; difference between capital and provinces in
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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District, gun or kori (originally agata), Daika subdivision, smaller than province; classification under Daiho; chief of, guncho; governors, gunshi; district governors and title to uplands; in Meiji administration, cho, or son
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The empire was divided into provinces (kuni) of four classes -- great, superior, medium, and inferior, -- and each province was subdivided into districts (kori) of five classes -- great, superior, medium, inferior, and small.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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