Nautch

"Nautch," as such an occasion is called, was ended.

Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859

People stared at me, half Nautch-courtesan, half Untouchable street-sleeper.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

People stared at me, half Nautch-courtesan, half Untouchable street-sleeper.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

The dances of the aphish-looking Nautch girls, dressed though they were in magnificent brocades, gave Burton disgust rather than pleasure.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Nautch Dance in which the Indian Nautch girl, fully clothed, indeed in high tight bodice and ankle-length, voluminous skirt, will drive her native audience clean crazy with the tapping of her feet and slight, undulating movements of the slender body and rod-like arms.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

It was a moonlighted evening, and the fleecy clouds we have noted moved in and out of her path in a stately dance, with winning grace, as eastern Nautch girls might dance their way into the favor of a haughty sheik.

Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

The drama of these early times was probably nothing more than the Indian Nautch of the present day.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

Malay races; graceful _bedayas_, the Nautch girls of Java, performing the old-world dances still in vogue; and women with _lotahs_ on their heads, passing in single file to palm-fringed tanks, might be represented with equal truth in this twentieth century.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The great artist has painted Nautch girls twisting their floating scarves, and jugglers throwing poignards into the air.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Ah me! you talk in pharisaic whispers of the Nautch girl; in righteous anger against the dainty geisha; in horror of the weaving Salomes as known in Western cities; wait, however, before you pour the last drop from your vials of wrath and indignation until you have seen an Arab dance "_al-fajr_" which, being translated, means the dawn.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest