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- noun Plural form of
Hindoo .
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Examples
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My dear Children -- From what I have previously stated, you are aware that the Hindoos are a very deceitful people.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder
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Witness, as confirmation of what has been said, cloves and pepper, which hold sway nearly over the earth; betel, which to the Hindoos is the remedy for every disease; the onions and leeks of the Egyptians, who while building the pyramids and obelisks, spent their money eagerly on those dainties; and tobacco, which is adopted by the four quarters of the world.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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My dear Children -- Marriage, to the Hindoos is the greatest event of their lives.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. Dr. John Scudder
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The Hindoos were the first ancient people to make extensive use of the cotton fiber.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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Climate again is something; but if climate were everything, Anglo-Indians would grow more and more to look like Hindoos, which is far from being the case.
George Bernard Shaw 1905
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Historical inquiries show that the feeling of the Hindoos is the old feeling, and that the feeling of the Englishman is a modern feeling.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851
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Hindoos, which is thus described in Forbes's _Oriental
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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Whatever rigor was used with regard to the Mahomedan adventurers from Persia, Turkey, and other parts, who filled the places of servile grandeur in the Mogul court, the Hindoos were a favored, protected, gently treated people.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Well into the last century, there were court cases and administrative proceedings to determine whether Armenians or Turks or "Hindoos" or people from any number of other ethnic groups were white.
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I don't even remember his name, but what had happened was that he'd been taking part in a wrestling match with some local worthy, and before he'd got his shirt back on afterwards, some British troopers from the Dragoon Guards who were there at the time had playfully snapped the sacred cord which he wore over his shoulder next the skin - as his kind of Hindoos did.
Fiancée 2010
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