How To Use Nautch In A Sentence
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But Polly's was like the mad and lawless ceremonial of some heathen temple where incense arose and nautch girls writhed.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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They had ceased to patronise the nautch, and in its stead preferred English music or military bands.
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Nobody would stand around long enough to view a nautch in its entirety.
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But it is worthless compared with the priceless items that were taken, like didapper and nautch.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
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Did the same explanation shed any light on the mystery of the nautch - girl and the jequirity bean sent to Shirley?
The Treasure-Train
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Whether represented by an oil painting of heroic British women or images of sultry nautch girls, Lucknow in this last gallery is reduced to a series of competing icons.
Where East Met West To Wondrous Effect
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I came out rotten with fleas, stinking of nautch-oil and cheap perfume and cooking ghee, with my ears full of beggars 'whines and hawkers' jabbering and the clang of the booths - but that was all.
Fiancée
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If he had been the true commander here, he would have put a stop to all of these unseemly festivities, ordered a halt for prayer five times a day, had the camp swept free of the women of ill repute and the nautch girls.
Shadow Princess
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A vague notion prevails that a nautch is a very naughty and improper exhibition.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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They had ceased to patronise the nautch, and in its stead preferred English music or military bands.
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Ruler Nasir al-Din Haidar appears in Kettle's portrait wearing a European-style crown, while a 1786-88 portrait of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier, a French officer and tireless art collector, shows a mustachioed European in caftan and turban sitting on cushions watching a nautch girl caught middance, one arm raised, an ankle encircled in bells.
Where East Met West To Wondrous Effect
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It has the taint of the louche, as did its forebear, the nautch show.
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Weddings and other festive occasions are observed with much enthusiasm and are often celebrated with feasting, and sometimes with nautch girls.
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I let out an astonishing noise, and was trying to steady myself for a plunge, but she checked me with a lifted hand, slid one foot forward, crooked her arms like a nautch-dancer, and came gliding slowly towards me, swaying that splendid golden nakedness in time to the throbbing of the music beneath our feet.
Fiancée
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There were performances by the ubiquitous nautch girls.
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The musically inclined colonizers, even during the time of Warren Hastings used to refer to dancers as 'nautch' girls (naach for dance in hindi) and even used to host 'nautch' parties in their residence; some of them even attempted to play their raga based music on harpsichords.
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She writes of being a spectator in an exotic world of jugglers, tumblers, snake charmers, fire-eaters, and nautch girls.
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They would send me portraits of fabulous guys with beards, smoking hookahs and watching nautch girls.
