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Purdesee (plural Purdesees)

  1. (India, historical, archaic) In the Bombay army, a sepoy from northern India.
    • 1875, Sketch of the Medical History of the Native Army of Bombay, page 154:
      The diet of the Christian and Jew privates is but little richer than that of their Brahmin and Purdesee comrades; but the men are more robust-looking, and are certainly less frequently inmates of the hospital.
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