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Polite form of address for a woman in India
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memsahib
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Word definitions for memsahib in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman sahib
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (cx India historical as a respectful term of address English) A white European woman in colonial India.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
memsahib \mem"sa`hib\, mem-sahib \mem"-sa`hib\(m[e^]m"s[aum]`[i^]b), n. [Hind. mem-s[=a]hib; mem (fr. E. ma'am) + Ar. [,c =a]hib master. See Sahib .] Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.
Usage examples of memsahib.
In fact the memsahib had saddled her horse and gone out somewhere, ordering the syce to accompany her on one of the pack horses.
Lady Mary takes her breakfast in the nursery each morning, Memsahib Warring.
If the memsahib truly loves you, as she claims, your beloved Victoria will forgive you any naughtiness, no matter what it may be.
They laughed and shouted to her, but they all knew and loved this English Doctor Memsahib, who had treated many of their children and wives and they deliberately refrained from showering her immaculate clothes, or her horse, with colour.
Residency, when one of the British guards shouted and pointed his rifle at an urchin who was being urged by a man to squirt the English Memsahib with the pink dye.
If you ever need my assistance, memsahib, please let me know by sending that ring to me.
I believe, Memsahib, her spirit cannot rest or enter the cycle of rebirth.
How did you get from the place where the memsahib is hidden to the temple of Siva?
Two of them, a sahib and memsahib and tourists by the look of them, wandered off in the direction of the Mall.
Word has come that Memsahib Sharpe passed down the Mall ten minutes ago in a tonga.
No, memsahib,there is no time to gather your items, please oh please to hurry, memsahib.
And presently the Indian reappeared and asked what time the Memsahib would like lunch.
Hindu butler inform him that the memsahib was not in, but due to return at any moment.
You are speaking of what you might call the memsahib days, the days when there were Service communities in Malaya.
Excellency, but tomorrow when the memsahib Lady Lamb comes to dine, it is very, very important that she not think us uncivilized.