Erron. tahali. [Arabic taxallī ornamenting.] Decoration.

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1833.  Longf., Outre-Mer, Prose Wks. 1886, I. 166. Moorish knights gayly arrayed … with scarfs of blue and jewelled tahalies.

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1904.  J. Parkinson, Lays Love & War, 47. What ho! my spear, My mail, and helm, and gleaming tahali.

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