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Definition of Bunnias
1. bunnia [n] - See also: bunnia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunnias
Literary usage of Bunnias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India by A. C. Newcombe (1905)
"... taken the tickets in order to sell them to the bunnias, who bought the grain
at the reduced price and sold it again at their own shops at famine prices. ..."
2. My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny by Ethel St. Clair Grimwood (1891)
"These were chiefly servants, bunnias,* and the many followers who accumulate
wherever a regiment goes. I stood for some time watching them tearing away, ..."
3. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
"... bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters — all the world
going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a ..."
4. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... where Mussulman boat-people get hold of them and sell them later lo the bunnias
in the bazaar, whence they come back to us as edibles. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... Parsees, Chamars, bunnias, Telis — all kinds go there. But my people are dead.
I shall take my brother's son back with me to Kimberley, and when he can ..."
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