chenarn.
/tʃiːnɑː/ The Persian name of the Oriental Plane-tree; also, timber from this.
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1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 136 Broad-spreading Chenawrs.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 337 Upon sight of the Zinnar Tree or Platanus, he told me that since their falling to plant this Tree about the Citty of Ispahan in Persia, the Plague..has exceedingly abated.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 259 High Chinors, or Sicamores.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 11 They seem Like a chenar-tree grove.
1879 C. R. Low Jrnl. Gen. Abbott iv. 324 Fine chenar trees.
1889 Cent. Dict. Chinar.
1917 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 414 The folds of the door are of solid steps of chinar.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 79/2 The tall Chinar trees stood up dreamily.
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