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Holi

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Hindu festival, held in the spring, during which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations.

    "At the Hoolie or Spring Festival, which happened in March, the Sepoys came round in procession, and exhibited anautch for our amusement in front of our bungalow, and a sort of play, the performers enacting the part of wild beasts."

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi होली (holī), from Sanskrit होली (holī).

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