bandari
Britishnoun
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a female monkey
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informal an impudent or mischievous girl or woman
Etymology
Origin of bandari
C21: Hindi
Example Sentences
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Shia Muslim Bandari women from southern Iran wearing embroidered Boregeh masks.
From BBC
The Iranian American scientist and feminist Roja Bandari, who lived under Iran’s religious dictatorship, tweeted this after the 2016 election: “There is no ominous music playing in background in dictatorships. So if you in the US are waiting for a sign, there will be none.”
From The Guardian
Esha Bandari, a staff attorney for the ACLU, explained that there’s a long history of passing obscenity laws “in the guise of protecting minors”, but that allow governments to prosecute adults making erotic materials for other adults.
From Salon
The law was so broadly worded, according to Bandari, that one could get in legal trouble for offering sex education to high school students or even selling “The Catcher in the Rye“.
From Salon
Like many villagers, Bandari used much of the cash to pay for the schooling and marriages of her children.
From The Guardian
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