Citations:dood

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English citations of dood

Riding camel or dromedary
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    • 1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India Vol. 2, page 41:
      [] when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.
  • 1892, George Manville Fenn, Gil the Bummer, Or, the Youngest Officer in the East, page 42:
    "I have never seen it," he replied; "but I have seen them attack a dood."
  • 2003, Muslim India - Issues 241-252, page 57:
    The gyakores are now baying for the boy's dood and have threatened to kill the entire community if he is not handed over to them, " said Valji Patel . He added that when Chavda's family refused to comply , members of the Thakore community lay siege on October 22 outside the Chamar Vas , where the 15 Chamar families lived, and waited with weapons for the Chamars to come out.
Milk
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  • 1937, Lillian Luker Ashby, Roger Whately, My India: Recollections of Fifty Years, page 236:
    A few minutes later, the dood-wallah reported seeing the bagh in the cowshed.
  • 1988, Shirley Berry Isenberg, India's Bene Israel: A Comprehensive Inquiry and Sourcebook, page 155:
    [] said family had received the name of Doodkar from the fact that his ( Bapuji ' s ) ancestors supplied the Government of Angria with Dood or milk .
  • 2010, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, page 290:
    Her husband, a jealous Hindoo, hovers over the scene behind the artillery parapet under pretence of selling tobacco and lights. The "lay doods," equivalent to our "milk-ka-alow," generally go in pairs, and disturb the quiet of our camp till they are warned off by the Chief's sentry