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
"I am liking the big noise—the big tamasha," the young monarch explained in all gravity.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
After we've dined I'm going to show you some Indian tamasha.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
"What's, precisely, the nature of this tamasha, Colonel Farrell?"
From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph
Crowds of the élite of the neighbourhood were hastening into Islamabad, where the "tamasha," which we came upon at Bejbehara, is to be continued to-morrow.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
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