Purdesee

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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