boorka

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English

Noun

boorka (plural boorkas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of burka.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Beyond the Pale’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 117:
      So he went, that very night at eleven, into Amir Nath's Gully, clad in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman.

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