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Suri - A breed of alpaca characterized by lustrous locks of fleece that lay close to the body, twisting vertically toward the ground. - Alpacas.com

 

Suri - Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise's first child, born April of 2006 is named Suri. Suri, the name chosen by the Hollywood couple for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel. - MSNBC

 

Suri - "Printer" or "printed" ("rubbed"), a designation often found within small cartouches indicating the person credited with printing the design (typically only the master printer was so named on a print, although there are examples with the names of secondary printers). Surihan and suriko are also designations of printers found on ukiyo-e. - OsakaPrints.com

 

Suri - is the Persian adjective for red. See Chaharshanbe Suri (the last Wednesday before the Persian New Year, or noruz). Chaharshanbe Suri literally means Red Wednesday (Chaharshanbe being Wednesday, and Suri being the adjective red). The word, used alone refers, to the red-toned damasc rose, Rosa damascena.

 

See also the article in Wikipedia.

 




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