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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India, one of an order of Brahmans regarded as of superior sanctity and invested with extraordinary privileges, including the right to marry many wives, in consideration of large dowries and the support of the wife by her parents in their own home. Also written Kooleen.

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