Purdesee
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 In the Bombay army, a sepoy from northern India. India, archaic, historical
"The diet of the Christian and Jew privates is but little richer than that of their Brahmin and Purdesee comrades; but the men are more robust-looking, and are certainly less frequently inmates of the hospital."
Example
More examples"The diet of the Christian and Jew privates is but little richer than that of their Brahmin and Purdesee comrades; but the men are more robust-looking, and are certainly less frequently inmates of the hospital."
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