Bhil
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Bhil
First recorded in 1815–25
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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
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
Now, setting aside Dana of the New York Sun, Dana is a Bhil name, and Da fits no native of India unless you except the Bengali De as the original spelling.
From Soldiers Three by Kipling, Rudyard
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
They will thus escape the Bhils, and after journeying on for four miles, at length they will sit down wearied, and revolve many thoughts in their minds.
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Burton, Isabel, Lady
The Minas and Bhils differ in language; whilst the Ramusis and Berdars, probably, exhibit transitional forms of speech.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
However, the word of the Bhils is sacred, and their hospitality is boundless.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
But I am not pleading here for Gonds, or Bhils, or Santhals, and other non-Aryan tribes.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander
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