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The Himʹalayʹa. The word means snow hills (hima, snow).
“The huge incumbrance of horrific woods
From Asian Taurus, from Imaus stretched
Athwart the roving Tartar’s sullen bounds.”
Thomson: Autumu.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.