jodhpur
jodhpurs, (used with a plural verb) riding breeches cut very full over the hips and tapering at the knees to become tightfitting from the knees to the ankles.
Also called jodhpur shoe, jodhpur boot . an ankle-high shoe for wearing with such breeches, having a strap that encircles the ankle and buckles on the side.: Compare chukka boot.
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Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
a city in central Rajasthan, in NW India.
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How to use jodhpur in a sentence
The chief, whose title is raja, is a Rajput of the Rathor clan, descended from a branch of the jodhpur family.
jodhpur was conquered by Sindhia, who levied a tribute of 60,000, and took from it the fort and town of Ajmere.
The state was founded in the reign of the emperor Akbar, by a younger son of the raja of jodhpur.
This being translated, meant jodhpur, which is the city of the Houyhnhnms.
From Sea to Sea | Rudyard Kiplingjodhpur dak-bungalow seems to be full of men "waiting here."
From Sea to Sea | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for Jodhpur
/ (ˌdʒɒdˈpʊə) /
a former state of NW India, one of the W Rajputana states: now part of Rajasthan
a walled city in NW India, in W Rajasthan: university (1962). Pop: 846 408 (2001)
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