terain.
/təˈrʌɪ/, U.S. /təˈraɪ/ 1. The name of a belt of unhealthy marshy and jungly land, lying between the lower foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. Also attributive.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
marsheOE
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moorOE
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marshlandlOE
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grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
1852 T. Smith Narr. Five Years' Resid. Nepaul I. ii. 56 The Terai, or Turay, or Turyanee, is a long strip or belt of low level-land.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 II. ii. 31 This gentleman was one of the unhappy refugees who was sheltered in the terai..and, although he saved his life, he was struck down by terai fever.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 379/1 The low alluvial land of the tarai is well adapted for cultivation, and is, so to speak, the granary of Nepal.
1918 C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) xi. 268 The terai jungles of Garhwal, the tree-ferns of Pahang, and the mighty moras..will stand in silvery silence.
1954 O. H. K. Spate India & Pakistan xviii. 496 Originally the terai covered a zone perhaps 50–60 miles wide... Much of this has been so altered by settlement that the true terai is now confined to a relatively narrow strip.
1981 V. Powell Flora Annie Steel xii. 104 To soothe her fever—terai fever as it was then called—she was given hashish.
2. transferred. A wide-brimmed felt hat with double crown and special ventilation, worn in subtropical regions where the heat is not so intense as to necessitate the use of the sola topi or pith sun-helmet. More fully terai hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > felt > with broad brim
wide awake1837
kausia1850
terai hat1888
Borsalino1914
Garbo1930
1888 R. Kipling Under Deodars 43 Mrs. Boulte put on a big terai hat.
1888 R. Kipling Under Deodars 73 She was wearing an unclean Terai with the elastic under her chin.
1894 County Gentlemen's Catal. 155/2 Soft drab terai double felt hats.
1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. xix. 207 Nothing beats a broad-brimmed terai, with double crown, well-ventilated with holes at the sides.
1899 Warner Capt. of Locusts 188 Replacing on his head a ‘Terai’ hat.
1904 D. B. W. Sladen When we were Lovers in Japan xi Silk puggarees folded to a hair round their broad-brimmed grey terai hats.
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