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prayer rugs

n. (plural of prayer rug English)

Usage examples of "prayer rugs".

Finally, the announcer said that the station would stop broadcasting for three minutes as a memorial to Colonel Baraka and to give people time to take their prayer rugs and pray toward Mecca.

The fezzes, the prayer rugs, the crescent moons: it was a little like going home.

I thought I sometimes detected in people who had lost property or fled, most frequently in Americans, some mild surprise that it hadn't happened sooner, that the men with the six-day beards hadn't come much earlier to burn them out, or uproot the plumbing, or walk off with the prayer rugs they'd bargained for in the souk and bought as investmentsfor the crimes of drinking whiskey, making money, jogging in shiny suits along the boulevards at dusk.

Sandals and shoes were lined up in a neat row and prayer rugs were already spread out.

As Walid spoke, the men removed their prayer rugs from the cars and placed them on the ground.

Old men slept on the floor or knelt on their dark prayer rugs amid cigarette butts and cellophane wrappers while nearby an American boy of about six -- blond hair and red-striped shirt incongruous among dark hues, crouched behind a chair and raked the customs counter with automatic fire from his toy M-16.

Almost half the people around me immediately stopped, unrolled prayer rugs to face east, and began to pray, right there in the Ramses Station.

Old men slept on the floor or knelt on their dark prayer rugs amid cigarette butts and cellophane wrappers while nearby an American boy of about six &mdash.