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Calcutta butter
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ghee
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ She sat outside the tarpaulin, rubbed her hair with ghee , then filled a basin with water and a little buttermilk. ▪ The boy's hair was plastered with ghee , or clarified butter, as evidence of his achievement. ▪ We were plied ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ghee \Ghee\ (g[=e]), n. [Hind. gh[=i] clarified butter, Skr. gh[.r]ta.] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] --Malcom.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. clarified butter used in Indian cookery
Usage examples of ghee.
That was the difference, Zuckuss supposed, between Boba Fett and a creature like this Gheeta.
Boba Fett recognized a few of the other Shell Hutts in the great reception hall, elders of the clan that were to Gheeta as an Imperial battle cruiser was to a TIE fighter craft.
Just as Boba Fett had already suspected, the sight of the pharmaceutical tube confirmed that Gheeta had prepared for this confrontation by chemically stripping out any sense of caution that might still have been lingering inside his brain.
She bent over the energetic flames fueled by prodigious amounts of ghee and the remains of the brahmin boy she had sacrificed earlier.
With garlands, sandal, and betelnut, ghee, honey, and curds consecrate the drum at evening-tide.
The town smelled of wood smoke and raw sewage, of rice cooked with saffron and of ghee, clarified butter.