Crossword-Solution: KOHINOOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Kohinoor | n. | Alt. of Kohnur |
We have 7 clues for the answer “KOHINOOR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 106-carat diamond | 1 answer |
| Famous Indian diamond | 1 answer |
| INDIAN diamond, famed | 1 answer |
| Legendary diamond | 1 answer |
| One of the British crown jewels. | 1 answer |
| Famous Diamond | 3 answers |
| Diamond | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KOHINOOR (5)
The Kohinoor, and the Orloff of the crown jewels of England and Russia, the largest on earth, came from that mine.” When that old Arab guide told me the second chapter of his story, he then took off his Turkish cap and swung it around in the air again to get my attention to the moral.
Look you, Leo, because I cannot wear Kohinoor, must I disport myself without any diamond necklace? Since he can never own 'La Peregrina,' must he eschew pearl studs in his shield front? We distinctly understand that we are not first prizes; but perhaps we may be something better than total blanks in the lottery, even though we quite realize the difference between love and friendship.
Paste diamonds sparkle in necklaces, crowns and tiaras, seeming to rival the scintillations of the Kohinoor.
You are my ideal of womanhood and your smile is more precious to me than the Kohinoor.' What's the Kohinoor?" he asked, pausing.
Don't be angry, Sir Galahad! You've won the Kohinoor; and although you seem to live in the clouds, you've had the sense to make things _pukka_ straightaway.
Quotes with KOHINOOR (1)
flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial power. Until it is returned — at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation — it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about. Perhaps that is the best argument for leaving the Kohinoor where it emphatically does not belong — in British hands.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2009).