A vague notion prevails that a nautch is a very naughty and improper exhibition. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
In Hindoostan, luxurious young men, for seeing a nautch. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference
India has her bayaderes and nautch-girls, whose dancing and singing talents are world-known. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The wedding procession is accompanied by drums, fireworks and, if means permit, a nautch-girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Ruth's, all in gauze; the nautch-girl on the bicycle; six times a day, in the open air, to the sound of tomtoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Perhaps that is the nautch to dance before ladies; but in Syria, I remember, they danced much better without being. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
Lights came out in high windows and sounds of bagpipes and beating tom-toms began inside the open doors of a nautch house. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
People looked at their playbills to see whether it was really Hilda Howe or some nautch-queen borrowed from a native theatre. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Baroda contended in graceful emulation with the nautch-girl of Ulwur, and the cathacks (or male dancers) with both; of elegantly-perfumed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
The nautch-girls in their spangled skirts and bells. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Asia] Reference
The Hawaiian hula, the nautch, and minstrelsy combined. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
What you want is an amalgamated lady bootblack and nautch dancer. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy End] Reference
In all my life I have seen but two -- my mother and a nautch-girl -- who cringed to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
Their women will dance the nautch, and promise unchastity as if that were a little matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference
We Persians like to listen to long stories, as we like to sit and look on at a wedding nautch. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Isaacs] Reference
She was indeed the most marvellous thing on earth, being a Bombay singing nautch-girl -- undefamed. From Wordnik.com. [Son of Power] Reference
He spoke of places, too, and of happenings in them, from Westchurch to Constantinople, from a nautch at. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Mumbai: Natrang, the story of a creative mind that dares think different, brings back the theatrical Top nautch. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Army transforms into peace and development builders] Reference
"And the nautch-girl whom he had known in Calcutta followed him, hoping to worm from him the secrets which he --". From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
'Opera girls' is a rather whimsical rendering of the more usual phrase 'nâch (nautch) girls', or 'dancing girls'. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
Did the same explanation shed any light on the mystery of the nautch - girl and the jequirity bean sent to Shirley?. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
The nautch-girls continued their performances throughout the whole evening, but the other entertainments were varied. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Rajah] Reference
But Polly's was like the mad and lawless ceremonial of some heathen temple where incense arose and nautch girls writhed. From Wordnik.com. [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference
Famous nautch-girls had come from distant cities and trained with those of Hurda for an important part in the celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Son of Power] Reference
He felt far more disgusted with the performances of the nautch-girls, and he resolved to prohibit their introduction in future. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Rajah] Reference
The nautch girls began to dance -- running, jumping, and flying here, there and everywhere, some up, some down, some round and round. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know] Reference
Society, by the power of the purse, set her to nautch-girl's work, and forbade her the higher work that was equally within her power. From Wordnik.com. [The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage] Reference
But instead of the usual troupe, which Herod probably kept for such an occasion, Salome herself came in and danced a wild nautch-dance. From Wordnik.com. [John the Baptist] Reference
As usual, he had a nautch (dance) upon carpets, spread upon the sward under awnings in front of the pavilion in which we were received. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference
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