purin.1
/ˈpʊəri/, U.S. /ˈpʊri/ A small round cake of unleavened wheat flour, deep-fried in ghee or oil.
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1831 S. Arnot tr. Indian Cookery 28 in Misc. Transl. Oriental Langs. I. No. 17. Puri. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.).
1838 R. M. Martin Hist. E. India I. i. vi. 286 The wheat is used..in unfermented cakes (Roti), which, if fried in oil, are called Puri.
1917 R. Kipling in Sat. Evening Post 9 June 17/1 I eat..halwa and puri (native dishes).
1931 M. Young Seen & Heard in Punjab Village x. 168 We shall cook pūris (cakes fried in oil) and khīr (sweet rice boiled in milk).
1952 J. Corbett My India v. 64 The wonderful occasion when they had been able to fill their bellies..with halwa and puris.
1960 R. P. Jhabvala Householder i. 79 ‘The puris were very good this morning,’ he said sheepishly.
1995 Toronto Life Jan. 94/2 Deep-fried chewy-soft poori arrive steaming hot in all their oily splendour.
2006 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 13 Mar. 21 Sandwiched inside a puri—round unleavened bread—were enough chunks of lean and tender lamb for the dish to constitute a meal in itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
purin.2
/ˈpʊəri/, U.S. /ˈpʊri/ In Bali and other parts of Indonesia.
1. A house of a member of a ruling or noble caste; a palace.
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1935 W. R. Foran Malayan Symphony xvi. 252 The modern Balinese Puras (temples) and Puris (houses) of the Brahman castes disclose the motifs and details of the Hindu-Javanese influence.
1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali vi. 158 Women of the aristocracy..live restricted and secluded in the palace, the puri, usually going out only in groups to festivals.
1941 P. H. Hiss Bali iv. 52 The cremation tower..stood just outside the poeri, or palace.
1961 P. Kemp Alms for Oblivion viii. 129 I saw ahead..the carved gateway of the Rajah's puri, or palace.
1971 Country Life 17 June 1544/1 The puris or palaces of the nobility..are entered through elaborately sculptured split doorways.
2003 L. Parker From Subjects to Citizens ii. 22 The Puri was built on a rise.
2. A ruling or noble caste or elite.
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1960 tr. H. J. Franken in Bali 253 A remark by the balian of Klungkung that Jayaprana's family was of the puri of Klungkung has apparently been conveyed to the highest ruler on Bali.
1977 J. A. Boon Anthropol. Romance of Bali, 1597–1972 vii. 155 In the puri of Tabanan, a raja begat sons with the title I Gusti Ngurah Alit (‘small’)..by padmi wives.
1988 Indonesia 45 7 Among the most important sources of conflict in 1945–1946 were the rivalries which existed among Bali's noble houses, or ‘puri’.
2002 G. MacRae in T. A. Reuter Inequality, Crisis & Social Change Indonesia iii. 43 Ck.Agung was the head of the puri and was thus seen by most people as the raja of Ubud by virtue of inheriting the divine mandate and ritual responsibilities of his father.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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