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Definition of Hindoostani
1. Noun. A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindoostani
Literary usage of Hindoostani
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tours in Upper India, and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with Accounts by Edward Archer (1833)
"CHAPTER I. Enter the territories of the King of Oude—Coronation hindoostani Dishes.
— Procession. — Breakfast. — The Prince.—Presents. ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"The vast plain is uninterrupted by a single eminence ; but the soil ami climate
differ in the same degree as does a hindoostani from a Bengalee. ..."
3. Heroes and Martyrs of the Modern Missionary Enterprise: A Record of Their by Lucius Edwin Smith (1856)
"In March the hindoostani New-Testament was completed. Through the remainder of
the year he was engaged in its revision, in the superintendence of the ..."
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