nautch girl
English
Noun
nautch girl (plural nautch girls)
- A dancing girl who performs the nautch. [from 19th c.]
- 1869 February, “Hindoo Fairy Legends”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 144:
- Great was the praise bestowed on the wise parrot, but the incensed nautch-girl said: “Be assured I will get you in my power; and when I do, I will bite off your head.”
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, p. 9:
- ‘I came about the nautch girl in your harem. Are you man enough to keep her under control?’
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, p. 549:
- ...one expected Wrangleresses on the legendary order of Phillippa Fawcett... but certainly not this nautch-girl extravagence of looks and self-possession that Yashmeen presented.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, p. 47:
- ‘Best kind of native—kept himself busy with his shrub and his nautch-girls and his tumashers.’
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