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Mahratta

American  
[muh-rat-uh] / məˈræt ə /

noun

  1. Maratha.


Mahratta British  
/ məˈrɑːtə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Maratha

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At Bandakui, where lives one of us, I thought to slip the scent by changing my face, and so made me a Mahratta.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

We spent a very happy six days at Mahableshwar and saw all sorts of interesting people and places, including the haunts of the great Mahratta Chieftain Sivaji.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

But when the Mahratta invaders appeared, soon after the beginning of the 18th century, the Gond kingdoms offered but a feeble resistance and the aboriginal population fled for safety to the hills.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

He is descended from the renowned Sivajee, whose skill and courage, in the seventeenth century, delivered the Mahrattas from the Mahometan yoke of the successors of Tamerlane, and founded the mighty Mahratta empire.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

An attempt of the puppet emperor to shake himself clear of the Mahrattas, in which he was defeated in 1788, led to a permanent Mahratta garrison being stationed at Delhi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

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