tamasha
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tamasha
1680–90; < Urdu < Persian tamāshā a stroll < Arabic
Example Sentences
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No ghostly batsmen, no nostalgia: this is cricket as spectacle: tamasha, as they say in India.
From Newsweek
After we've dined I'm going to show you some Indian tamasha.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
Perhaps 'the Disruption' is a sort of religious tamasha.
From Penny Plain by Douglas, O.
Farrell had grumbled about the exactions of his position as particularly instanced by the necessity of his attending tedious and tiresome native ceremonies in connection with the tamasha.
From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph
"What's, precisely, the nature of this tamasha, Colonel Farrell?"
From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph
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