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‖ moucharaby|muːˈʃærəbɪ| Also 9 moucharabey, musharab(a)yeh, -biyeh. [Fr.; corruptly a. mod.Arab. mashrabiyyah (Dozy).] In northern Africa: An external balcony inclosed with latticework. Also attrib.
1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. lvii/2 Panels of Musharabyeh Woodwork. 1888A. Meynell in Art Jrnl. II. 138/1 The actress in her mousharabiyeh chair. 1891Pall Mall G. 23 May 2/1 White-curtained moucharabies. 1894Daily News 22 Sept. 6/5 The Cairo musharabayeh, and the fluted silk of to-day, would have been regarded as eccentric in the extreme. ¶ In 1843 MM. Mérimée & Lenoir (Archit. Mil. au Moyen-Age) fancifully applied the name moucharaby to a kind of balcony projecting from the walls of certain European mediæval castles. It does not appear that this application of the word ever had any actual currency either in Fr. or Eng.; but moucharaby was inserted with this explanation (its proper sense being ignored) in Ogilvie's Imperial Dictionary (1850), and the entry has been copied with verbal alterations and expansions into various later Eng. Dicts. |