Pariah

The term Pariah comes from the ancient Tamil paRai, meaning drum - specifically a drum used to preempt announcements.

Nicholas Brown: The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 7 2008

Note - All this is happening in a policestation name Pariah !

Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006

Note - All this is happening in a policestation name Pariah !

Khaki Hyena's collaborate with canine relatives to fight Naxalite Lions Abhay N 2006

Mouse had conned me into driving him, in a stolen car, to a small bayou town in eastern Texas called Pariah.

A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

Mouse had conned me into driving him, in a stolen car, to a small bayou town in eastern Texas called Pariah.

A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

Nominally, the Pariah was the property of Amis Ludluck now, but Althea doubted she had ever visited the beached wreckage of the liveship.

Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

In this manner a kind of fifth sect, called Pariah, is formed of the dregs of the people, who are employed only in the meanest capacity.

Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales W. B. Cramp

Tibet mastiff and the common Sikkim hunting-dog, which is a variety of the sorry race called Pariah in the plains.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

LaMontagne was immovable and his fourth album came out just as he and a close group of friends dubbed The Pariah Dogs recorded it at LaMontagne's western Massachusetts home.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

We too had our high castes and our low castes, and (alas! for her and for ourselves!) we counted among our number one who in her loneliness and desolation might almost be called a Pariah -- or if that be too strong an illustration, who was at least, in more senses than one, the Cinderella of the school.

Honor O'callaghan Mary Russell Mitford 1821