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puri

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pu·ri  (pr)
n.
Variant of poori.
Puri [ˈpʊəriː pʊəˈriː]
n
(Placename) a port in E India, in Orissa on the Bay of Bengal: 12th-century temple of Jagannath. Pop.: 125 199 (1991)
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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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