Bhil
Americannoun
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Bhils,
plural
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Bhil
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Bhil
First recorded in 1815–25
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His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bhil men sat cross-legged and impassive; the Bhil women stared at the odhnis through the eyeholes in their cloaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every Bhil woman would get one, announced Tantia, if she would swear by Kaladev that she would never hide her face again.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the two years 1899 and 1900 the monsoon was very weak, the result being a severe famine which caused great mortality among the Bhil population.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
There are some 4,000,000 Bhils scattered through the arid lands of west and central India, and they are poor, even for India.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outbreaks among the troops at Karachi, Ahmedabad and Kolhapur were quickly put down, two regiments being disbanded, and the rebellions in Gujarat, among the Bhils, and in the southern Mahratta country were local and isolated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
The Bhils of the regiment - the uniformed men - were virtuous in many ways, but they needed humouring.
From The Day's Work - Part 01 by Rudyard Kipling
And the songs of the remotest antiquity point to the lands over the Kalapani as the place whence the Bhils came; that is to say, some place in Europe.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Your revered ancestor, my boy, according to the Bhils, has a tiger of his own - a saddle-tiger that he rides round the country whenever he feels inclined.
From The Day's Work - Part 01 by Rudyard Kipling
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