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Definition of Boorka
1. burka [n -S] - See also: burka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boorka
Literary usage of Boorka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"The Persian proverb says — " A Cabul wife in boorka-cover >' Was never known
without a lover." In some of the walls facing the streets there are little ..."
2. Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... in his boorka. The stroke missed his body, but cut into one of the muscles
... as the dawn was breaking, threw away his boorka and went home bareheaded. ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman. Directly the gongs of the
City made the hour, the little voice behind the grating took up " The Love ..."
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