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n. - A form of a certain language spoken around Delhi.

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  • 549 Boils and pimples are supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots and in Hindostani are called Bál-tor.
  • Hindostani Akhlák-i-Hindi (“Moralities of Ind”) and in
  • “Aurat”: the word has been borrowed by the Hindostani jargon, and means a woman, a wife.
  • I have elsewhere remarked how Englishmen make themselves unintelligible by transferring to Hindostani and other
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