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Samarcand

NOUN
  1. city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century

How To Use Samarcand In A Sentence

  • This is a Dutch lugger from Samarcand, laden with raisins and fig-paste and lichi nuts and cream dates. The Merryweathers
  • Samarcand to cedared Lebanon, show that Keats had not got over his boyish taste for sweet things, and reached the maturity and gravity of appetite which dictated the Miltonian description. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
  • Here are paintings by the old masters and the new; rare furniture and marbles from Italian palaces; screens from Japan; jewels and rugs from the Orient; silk stockings, curios, china, bronzes, hats, furs; and again more curios, cabinets, statues, paintings; things rare and beautiful and exotic from every quarter of the globe, "from silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon. Penguin Persons & Peppermints
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