Brewer's: Khorassan

[Region of the Sun ]. A province of Persia, anciently called Ariana.

“Terror seized her lest the love-light which encircled him should fade away, and leave him like the veiled prophet of Khorassan, a sinstained thing of clay” —LadyHardy: A Casual Acquaintance.

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