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khenna (uncountable)

  1. Archaic form of henna.
    • 1832, James Justinian Morier, Zohrab: The Hostage, volume 3, page 67:
      [] she was fair, at least she might be so called where all are decidedly dark; her hair, flowing down her back and over her temples in the greatest profusion, was brown, but rendered auburn by a slight tinge of khenna []