bustee
or bus·ti
a small settlement; village.
a slum.
Origin of bustee
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How to use bustee in a sentence
bustee's body was stolen at night by his son, and Guyadut's was sold to his family by the soldiers.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II | William SleemanFinally the bustee-wallahs agreed to stop operations and await legal judgment.
Ranching, Sport and Travel | Thomas CarsonIt may open on to a courtyard common to two or more houses, or it may lie behind any one of the gates of Jitha Megji's bustee.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition | Rudyard KiplingThis outbreak led to the inoculation of one hundred and sixteen persons in the bustee out of about two hundred.
The Popular Science Monthly, July, 1900 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for bustee
busti
/ (ˈbʌstiː) /
variant spellings of basti
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