OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 46321

mudra

/muːˈdɹɑː/
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mudra • mudrá
Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
For the next few minutes, the audience had sat mesmerized as the sisters performed, fingertips joining and parting in mudras, eyebrows quivering.
The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind.
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