Example sentences for: cowrie

How can you use “cowrie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Among the advances of the era were the introduction of astronomical calculations, chariots, the use of cowrie shells as a unit of exchange, the construction of palaces and temples, and the refinement of table manners through the introduction of chopsticks.

  • bandanna, bangle, banyan, bungalow, cheetah, chintz, chit, chop, chutney, coolie, copra, cot, cowrie, cummerbund, cushy, deodar, dinghy, dungaree, gong, gunny, guru, jungle, khaki, krait, loot, pajamas, punch, pundit, puttee, seersucker, shampoo, swami, thug, toddy, tom-tom, topee, veranda

  • Begum `high-ranking Muslim lady' derives ultimately from Eastern Turkic, while cowrie `a type of sea shell' comes from Tamil or Malayalam kavati via Hindi kauri or kaudi . Two Hindi loanwords have their origin in Europe: ayah `native maid or nurse,' the Hindi version of Portuguese aia , and pulton or pultun `infantry regiment,' adapted from paltan , the Hindi version of English battalion .

  • Kina (Papua New Guinea) originated from shell money used for centuries by people along their coast; the cedi of Ghana means `small shell' after the former use of the cowrie shell for money.

  • Porcelain was borrowed from Italian porcelaine `cowrie shell,' from a similarity of the surfaces of each.


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