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noun
A balcony in North Africa enclosed with carved wooden latticework.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
The latticework itself, also used to craft certain objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From French moucharaby, later reborrowed from its source, Arabic مَشْرَبِيَّة (mašrabiyya), from مِشْرَبَة (mišraba, “small jug”), from the water jars placed in it to provide evaporative cooling.
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