Persian
/ˈpɝʒən/ nom C2En français : Perse, Persan, Persane
- A native or inhabitant of the historical polity of Persia (for example, any of the various Persian empires).
- Synonym of Iranian
- A member of the ethnic group indigenous to Persis and the Iranian plateau that forms the majority of the population of modern-day Iran.
- A pastry local to the Thunder Bay region in Canada often compared to either a cinnamon bun or a donut topped with pink icing.
- A sheep of the Blackhead Persian breed.
- A thin silk fabric, formerly used for linings.
- Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.
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But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.
You will find tobacco in the Persian slipper.” He turned to his desk and scribbled off several telegrams, which were handed over to the page-boy.
The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
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