Kashan

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From Persian کاشان (kâšân).

• IPA^(key): /kɑːʃɑːn/

Kashan

1. A city in Isfahan province, Iran.

Kashan (plural Kashans)

1. A kind of decorative flat carpet.
   • 1985, Peter Balakian, “The Oriental Rug”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 29:

     I napped in the pile
     of the brushed and bruised
     Kashan on our living room floor

• Kahans, Nasakh, khanas, sankha