tamasha
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tamasha
1680–90; < Urdu < Persian tamāshā a stroll < Arabic
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No ghostly batsmen, no nostalgia: this is cricket as spectacle: tamasha, as they say in India.
From Newsweek
"I am liking the big noise—the big tamasha," the young monarch explained in all gravity.
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
Perhaps 'the Disruption' is a sort of religious tamasha.
From Penny Plain by O. Douglas
Remember there is to be no tamasha to-night, thou son of destiny.
From Son of Power by Will Levington Comfort
"What's, precisely, the nature of this tamasha, Colonel Farrell?"
From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance
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