What is "erdene"

Usage examples of "erdene".

Two of the women were a year or two younger than me: Erdene and Saken.

She paused, and Saken and Erdene picked up the kettle and poured steaming water down over the wool, hair, and mat, soaking every inch.

It was Saken, circling back, another woman beside her, and with a quick smile, Erdene switched back to her own horse and urged it forward to join Saken, while the new woman mounted the horse that was dragging the felt.

The other woman slapped her drum with a ringing crash and Erdene and Jolay joined in.

When Erdene finished, she gave Tamar her needle and a rod of tightly wound thread.

Tamar cut a piece of thread and threaded her needle, and Erdene helped her orient her pieces to put them together properly.

Janiya took Erdene into the yurt to talk to her alone, and came out looking utterly exasperated.

Tamar and I were settling in, and of course, how Erdene had managed to get herself pregnant.

I picked my way across the grazing area, thinking that I probably looked as disgusted and squeamish as Erdene usually did when it was her turn to do this task.

As had happened when we brought Erdene, the clan poured out of their camp to greet us as we rode up.

I saw Erdene, supported by a young man as she stood, pale and thin, to greet us, but no one else I knew.