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- noun Plural form of
Feringee .
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Examples
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Which side of that glaring incongruity is to give way -- brahman and caste ideas, or the buttressing of caste ideas by outcastes, Feringees, like Mrs. Besant?
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison
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As to the rest of the crowd, they no doubt thought the Feringees had gone mad when they wanted to buy such old and broken rubbish.
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With the Hindoos at Dinapore, he found, to his surprise, that there was apparently little disinclination to "become Feringees," as they called it, outwardly; but the difficulty lay in his insistance on Christian faith and obedience, instead of a mere external profession.
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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