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Definition of Huzoor
1. an Indian potentate [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huzoor
Literary usage of Huzoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel (1897)
""If the huzoor would listen for the sake of any woman he loves. ... I am pensioner,
huzoor. The King gave me three rupees, but now he is gone and the money ..."
2. British India: The Duty and Interest of Great Britain, to Consider the (1839)
"Many of those gentlemen style themselves huzoor, (' The presence;' anciently used
towards the Princes of the country,) with their own lips. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"The huzoor knows this slave hath no joy in life but to do the ... huzoor—the
Miss-sahiba went across —before the dam broke " Rao was beside him, ..."
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