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MESHREBIYA (drinking places)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 178 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESHREBIYA (drinking places) , the Arabic See also:term given to the projecting See also:oriel windows in See also:Cairo, enclosed with lattice-See also:work, through which a See also:good view of the See also:street can be obtained by the occupants without being seen; the term was derived from the small semicircular bows, in which porous See also:water-bottles are placed to cool by evaporation in the See also:air.

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