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jodhpur
1[ jod-per ]
noun
- 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,. an ankle-high shoe for wearing with such breeches, having a strap that encircles the ankle and buckles on the side. Compare chukka boot.
Jodhpur
2[ jod-per; locally johd-poor ]
noun
- Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- a city in central Rajasthan, in NW India.
Jodhpur
/ ˌdʒɒdˈpʊə /
noun
- 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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The chief, whose title is raja, is a Rajput of the Rathor clan, descended from a branch of the Jodhpur family.
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Jodhpur was conquered by Sindhia, who levied a tribute of 60,000, and took from it the fort and town of Ajmere.
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The state was founded in the reign of the emperor Akbar, by a younger son of the raja of Jodhpur.
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This being translated, meant Jodhpur, which is the city of the Houyhnhnms.
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Jodhpur dak-bungalow seems to be full of men "waiting here."
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