How To Use Memsahib In A Sentence
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I liked watching the meticulously-curated history of Singapore, especially the old photographs of rickshaw drivers and their imperious "memsahib" passengers during Singapore's heyday as a British colony, at the Singapore Historical Museum.
Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
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One day, thieves broke into the house while the memsahib was enjoying her drunken siesta and stole her very valuable sapphire ring.
Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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And in the wake of this came the dreaded memsahib: the wife and companion and helpmeet of the officer, the district commissioner, the civil servant, and the judge.
Victoria’s Secret
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I almost passed out from the noonday sun and humidity at the Singapore Botanical Gardens until the director, Dr. Chin See Chung, another Yale grad, whisked out a giant parasol for me as if I were modern-day memsahib.
Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
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My father is an Arab, my mother a Gujarati Khoja with a memsahib upbringing.
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Here, willfully ignoring the geography of their location, generations of mandarins and their memsahibs gossiped, took tea and went to the races, as if they were somewhere in Surrey rather than on the borders of Tibet.
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For example, case histories often place the etiology of women's madness in a failure to fulfill the social roles of the memsahib, and psychiatrists often found that men went mad when they failed to meet military standards for discipline.
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Here are these people sweeping the floor, filling containers with water, picking up cow dung, but when they return home, they revert to their roles as sahib bahadurs and memsahibs.
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She had enjoyed the life of a railway memsahib, but hated the constant movement it involved.
A House on Wheels : Anita Rau Badami talks about her novel Tamarind Woman
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'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka.
The Pool in the Desert
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He would remember himself, and say ‘Salaam, memsahib,’ putting his hands to his forehead, and then take off again, speaking his mixture of Hindi and Tamil, grimacing, gesturing at an invisible audience.
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And just because you call the memsahib ‘baji’ doesn’t make her care about you like a big sister would.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
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Bradshaw is sort of totally English and very fun to write as is his wife, the memsahib.
Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
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If Harold never quite fitted his job, my grandmother for her part was not a natural memsahib.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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Perhaps the jewel in the crown, so to speak, of the Central Business District or ‘The Fort’ is the old colonial Army and Navy Store, built in 1889, when Victorian memsahibs with parasols went shopping with their servants.
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One of the oldest markets in Bangalore, Russell Market was built around 1927 and its clientele included English memsahibs who were driven in their horse drawn carriages to source their vegetables and meat for their kitchens.
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Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
