Khorassan

English

Proper noun

Khorassan

  1. Alternative form of Khorasan
    • 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter IV, in Around the World on a Bicycle‎, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] , pages 71–72:
      Miandasht is the first place in Khorassan proper, and among the motley gathering of charvadars, camel-drivers, pilgrims, travellers, villagers and hangers-on about the serai, are many Khorassanis wearing huge sheepskin busbies, similar to the head-gear of the Roumanians and Tabreez Turks of Ovahjik and the Perso-Turkish border.
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