Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse-soldier; especially, a native cavalry soldier in the British-Indian army, often in the sense of an orderly or mounted attendant or guard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In India, a mounted soldier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical, India A
soldier onhorseback , specially one during the British Raj.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You're here now, as an ordinary sowar - but a sowar who gathers up papers as though he's as used to handling 'em as I am.
Fiancée 2010
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Ilderim and I and the remaining three waited until nightfall, and then set off on foot to the thicket where we were to rendezvous; there were the first six horses and a sowar waiting, and round about midnight Shadman and his companions came clattering out of the dark to join us, crowing with laughter.
Fiancée 2010
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So there I was - Colonel Harry Paget Flashman, late of the 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers and the Staff, former aide to the Commander-in-Chief, and now acting-sowar and rear file in the skirmishing squadron, 3rd Cavalry, Bengal Army, and if you think it was a mad-brained train of circumstance that had taken me there - well, so did I.
Fiancée 2010
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For answer the sowar nodded, took out his Khyber knife, and stepped back under the trees to where his companions were guarding the prisoner, or what was left of him.
Fiancée 2010
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"Ram-ram, * (* Hello.) sowar," says I, and forced myself to leer at him.
Fiancée 2010
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In the meantime, I had one good night's sleep, feeling safe for the first time in weeks with Ilderim's rascals around me, and next day we just lay up in the temple ruins while one sowar went to scout for Shadman Khan, who was meant to be out stealing horses for us.
Fiancée 2010
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He was a Pathan, skull-cap and pyjamys and all, and as he came to my horse's head I recognised the sowar who'd given me his gear and pony when I'd left Jhansi - Rafik Tamwar.
Fiancée 2010
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They didn't have the numbers, I hey didn't have the weight, and they were spent, man and beast — but they had the time and the place to perfection, and in a twinkling the Khalsa charge was a struggling confusion of rearing beasts and falling riders and flashing steel as the Lights tore into its heart and the sowar lancers raked across its front. 36
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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Now that's a pension we'll see paid, with arrears, thinks I: an ex-sowar of Bengal Cavalry who has a king's ear is worth a few chips a month.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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What they thought, to see a hairy gorracharra sowar treated with such consideration by their Wazir, I don't know.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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