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Mem-sahib   Listen
noun
mem-sahib, memsahib  n.  Lady; mistress; used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.






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"Mem-sahib" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather a wry face. 'I didn't always like it, memsahib. But I knew my dear, and could trust her; and I often swore to myself when I was shaving, "I won't ask her to settle down until I have given her a year in England." A year from to-day, you harum-scarum. By that time your daughter will be almost grown-up ...
— Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • J. M. Barrie

... the mysteries of the "duftar-room"; to the other the great, reflected wilderness of the "Memsahib's room" where the shiny, scented dresses hung on pegs, miles and miles up in the air, and the just-seen plateau of the toilet-table revealed an acreage of speckly combs, broidered "hanafitch bags," ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling



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