Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
chamar .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
chamar .
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Examples
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The spirit of religious exclusiveness prevails here as well as in other places; and the colonel mentions his having been once an eyewitness of some rough treatment received by a _chumar_, or leather-dresser, (one of the lowest castes,) at the hands of some high caste sepoys, who were highly indignant that so mean a carcass should presume to defile the holy ground!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various
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