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Sahara|səˈhɑːrə|
Also 7 Sarra, 7–9 Za(h)ara, 9 Saara, Sahra.
[a. Arab. çaḥrā desert.]
1. a. The great desert of Libya or northern Africa. (With capital S as proper name.)
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 556 Lybia, he calleth Sarra, for so the Arabians call a desert. 1615Bedwell Arab. Trudg., Sahara. The stonie countrey, the sands: the same almost that Sarra is. 1698Froger Voy. 13 The Deserts of Zaara. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iii. 246 He withdrew among his Arab Confederates in the Sahara, or Desart. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 28 Having some resemblance to the Stepps of Tartary, or the Saara's of Africa. 1819Rees Cycl. XXXI., Zahara. 1834De Quincey Cæsars iv. Wks. 1890 VI. 332 The..sandy Zaarras of Africa. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxiii, The shadowless..wastes of Zahara.
b. transf. and fig. A desert, wilderness.
1855Dickens Holly-Tree Inn in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No. 2/2 The bleak wild solitude..was a snowy Saharah. 1862‘Shirley’ [J. Skelton] Nugæ Crit. i. 4 During this autumnal season,..the city is a desert, a Sahara. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iv, Between Battle Bridge and that part of the Holloway district in which he dwelt, was a tract of suburban Sahara. 1893Lit. World 3 Nov. 332/1 In the Sahara of contemporary verse there are sometimes..oases full of beauties and surprises.
2. A shade of brown or yellow. Also attrib.
1923Daily Mail 9 Oct. 1/1 Colours: Lemon,..Fawn, Sahara, Mole. 1930Daily Express 8 Sept. 11/5 The suit is stocked in shades of sand, Sahara Brown and Grey. 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird ii. 12 He was..broad-shouldered, with that super kind of Swedish suède jacket in Sahara sand colour. 1974Times 4 May 5/2 Bathroom suites in..honeysuckle, orchid, midnight blue, sahara, black. 1976Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 20/2 (Advt.), 1971 Opel Rekord coupe in Sahara Gold.
Hence Saˈharian, Saˈharic adjs.
1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. ii. 216 As well might one hope to squeeze rain from a Saharic sand-cloud. 1897Edin. Rev. Jan. 129 The Saharian district. |