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‖ terai|təˈraɪ|
Also tarai.
[From Terai (Hindī tarāī moist (land), f. tar moist, damp: see sense 1.]
1. The name of a belt of unhealthy marshy and jungly land, lying between the lower foothills of the Himalayas and the plains. Also attrib.
1852T. Smith Narr. Five Years' Residence Nepaul I. ii. 56 The Terai, or Turay, or Turyanee, is a long strip or belt of low level-land. 1860W. H. Russell My Diary in India 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. 1911Encycl. 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. 1918W. 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. 1954O. 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. 1981V. Powell Flora Annie Steel xii. 104 To soothe her fever—terai fever as it was then called—she was given hashish.
2. transf. A wide-brimmed felt hat with double crown and special ventilation, worn in sub-tropical regions where the heat is not so intense as to necessitate the use of the sola topee or pith sun-helmet. More fully terai hat.
1888Kipling Under Deodars 43 Mrs. Boulte put on a big terai hat. Ibid. 73 She was wearing an unclean Terai with the elastic under her chin. 1894County Gentlemen's Catal. 155/2 Soft drab terai double felt hats. 1899F. V. Kirby Sport E.C. Africa xix. 207 Nothing beats a broad-brimmed terai, with double crown, well-ventilated with holes at the sides. 1899Warner Capt. of Locusts 188 Replacing on his head a ‘Terai’ hat. 1904D. Sladen Lovers in Japan xi, Silk puggarees folded to a hair round their broad-brimmed grey terai hats. |