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
It is not yet in thy head—to determine when shall be tamasha.
From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington
Or had the tamasha been arranged in order to gather together all the rulers in Rajputana without exciting suspicion, that they might agree upon a concerted plan of mutiny against the Sirkar?
From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph
We Indians who know how little the bulk of India has really changed, could laugh at the tamasha of Western fancy-dress, in small matters; but time for laughing has gone by.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud
After we've dined I'm going to show you some Indian tamasha.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
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