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
Example Sentences
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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
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
The old Bhil, who represented to us the absent dhani, proposed that in the meanwhile we should witness a Brahmanical wedding ceremony.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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
But, unfortunately, everything we know about the history of the Bhils is reduced to the above-mentioned tradition, and to a few ancient songs of their bards.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
But why the Bhils should be almost fair and blue-eyed, whereas the rest of the hill-tribes are almost African in type, is a question that is not answered by this statement.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
These suggest the likelihood of the Gohuri, the Bhatti, and their like, being in the same category with the Khonds and Bhils, &c., i.e., representatives of the earlier and more exclusively Tamulian populations.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The Bhils of the regiment—the uniformed men—were virtuous in many ways, but they needed humouring.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling
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