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- noun Plural form of
chumar .
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Examples
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Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters — all the world going and coming.
Kim 2003
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If a man wants your money, he ought to ask for it, or send round a subscription-list, instead of juggling about the country, with an Australian larrikin; a "brumby," with as much breed as the boy; a brace of chumars in gold-laced caps; three or four ekka-ponies with hogged manes, and a switch-tailed demirep of a mare called Arab because she has a kink in her flag.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters -- all the world going and coming.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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a "brumby," with as much breed as the boy; a brace of chumars in gold-laced caps; three or four ekka-ponies with hogged manes, and a switch-tailed demirep of a mare called Arab because she has a kink in her flag.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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