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A tract of land between two rivers.

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Usage examples (11)
  • We'd just come through a jungly strip, and behind it the doab lay flat as a flagstone to the horizon.
  • I brooded on that as we trotted south over the doab in the misty afternoon, with Jupindar fading from sight behind us, and the distant green that marked the Sutlej...
  • How far we came before the teeming down-pourceased and the sky began to lighten, I can't tell, but presently we could see the doab about us, with wraiths of vapour...
  • We kept clear of the road, which was choked with transport trains, but even on the doab we found ourselves riding through regiment after regiment marching in open order...
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