Purdesee
English
Noun
Purdesee (plural Purdesees)
- (India, historical, archaic) In the Bombay army, a sepoy from northern India.
- 1875, Sketch of the Medical History of the Native Army of Bombay (page 154)
- The diet of the Christian and Jew privates is but little richer than that of their Brahmin and Purdesee comrades; but the men are more robust-looking, and are certainly less frequently inmates of the hospital.
- 1875, Sketch of the Medical History of the Native Army of Bombay (page 154)
Related terms
- Paradesi
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “Purdesee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].