Hindoostani

Meer Mahommed, he was greatly delighted by his new friend's introduction of the English word _swap_ into a sentence of Hindoostani.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

No difference can be more marked than between the Hindoostani and the Malay.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The quantity (sometimes not trifling) and quality of his meals, the consequent state of his digestion, and his endless rows on the score of accommodations and forage with thannadars, darogahs, kutwals, and all the other designations for Hindoo and Hindoostani jacks-in-office,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

He conducted all in Hindoostani (?), his native tongue.

The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910

It would seem that this principle of rhetorical pause ought to be easily grasped and applied, but a long experience in training both college men and maturer speakers has demonstrated that the device is no more readily understood by the average man when it is first explained to him than if it were spoken in Hindoostani.

The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

To withdraw without being compromised was a most perilous operation, for I was surrounded, while the enemy were shouting and cheering, beating up troops, and calling out to us in French and English, as well as Hindoostani, that we were in their power.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

A pack of Hindoostani cards, in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, and presented to Captain Cromline Smith in 1815, by a high caste Brahman, was declared by the donor to be actually 1000 years old: ` Nor, 'said the Brahman, ` can any of us now play at them, for they are not like our modern cards at all.'

The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

Calcutta turns out in state for a drive on the Maidan, -- the Hindoostani name for esplanade, -- a broad and finely macadamized roadway, extending along the river's bank, by the fort, the open cricket grounds, the parade, and the gardens, arranged as a circular course of a mile or more in extent, which would be perfection had it only a proper complement of shade trees.

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

a bullet-graze on his knee, swearing strange oaths in Hindoostani, and saying that all things were ready.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

French and German, Hindoostani, Pushtu -- which is a tongue ... "

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971