Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
nautch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.
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- noun an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls
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Examples
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Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt.
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Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt.
Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne 1866
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This hymn was tranilated at the requeft of a very learned and ingenious friend of mine, who was pleafed to find fuch juft fentiments of the Deity in a Heathen, and fo nauch poetry in a philofopher.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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That we have not the whole Davideis is, however, not nauch to be re - gretted; tor in this undertaking Cowley is, tacitly at leaft, confefTecl to have mifcarried.
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As we came near the ihore, tike finging of mt rowers was* fuccceded by that of reapers, wiM» were bufy at work, and who feemed to fhovc as nauch as to fing, while they worked with a bounding adlvity.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D ... 1785
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He nauch again deifirad to foe Jenafalem*s renown j But finding it all quite deftroyedf He wandered thence with woe,
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156 ESSAY ON and tender intercourfe was often perhaps very innocent j but, as it afforded nauch
A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 1793
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