terain.

Brit.

/təˈrʌɪ/, U.S.

/təˈraɪ/

Forms: Also tarai.

Etymology: < Terai (Hindi tarāī moist (land), < 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 attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]

marsheOE

fenc888

sladec893

moorOE

mossOE

marshlandlOE

lay-fena1225

lay-mirea1225

moor-fenc1275

flosha1300

strother?a1300

marish1327

carrc1330

waterlanda1382

gaseync1400

quaba1425

paludec1425

mersec1440

sumpa1450

palus?1473

wash1483

morass1489

oozea1500

bog?a1513

danka1522

fell1538

soga1552

Camarine1576

gog1583

swale1584

sink1594

haga1600

mere1609

flata1616

swamp1624

pocosin1634

frogland1651

slash1652

poldera1669

savannah1671

pond-land1686

red bog1686

swang1691

slack1719

flowa1740

wetland1743

purgatory1760

curragh1780

squall1784

marais1793

vlei1793

muskeg1806

bog-pit1820

prairie1820

fenhood1834

pakihi1851

terai1852

sponge1856

takyr1864

boglet1869

sinkhole1885

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	terai
释义	terain. Brit. /təˈrʌɪ/, U.S. /təˈraɪ/ Forms: Also tarai. Etymology: < Terai (Hindi tarāī moist (land), < 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852
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