nautch
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani नाच / ناچ (nāc).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɔːt͡ʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːtʃ
Noun
nautch (plural nautches)
- A dance in South Asia, performed by professional dancing girls. [from 18th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 65:
- ‘We will punish no one, no one,’ he repeated, ‘and in the evening we will give a great banquet with a nautch, and lovely girls shall shine on every side of the tank […].’
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