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Peacock Throne
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Pea´cock` Throne
1.A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia (now Iran); - so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.
2.The office or position of the Shah of Iran; as, to ascend the Peacock Throne.
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The dazzle of the Peacock Throne or the pleasure gardens of the nobles and merchants were not enough to blind contemporary adventurers -- FranE*ois Bernier, for instance -- to the hopeless life of the unwashed majority.
THE GREAT MUGHAL & HIS EMPIRE OF WARTS by Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
Thirty years ago the holder of the peacock throne learned to his cost that the people of Iran are not to be trifled with.
The view from Kuala Lumpur by Taylor, K.P.; Tarniowecky, I. / The Middle East
Reagan's predecessor, Jimmy Carter - the Democrat who had urged Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to make concessions to the opposition - ended his term with another stinging humiliation from the man who removed Pahlavi from the Peacock Throne, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Iran awaits more than just a change of face in the White House by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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