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nautch

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nautch, nauch [nɔːtʃ]
n
(Performing Arts / Dancing)
a.  an intricate traditional Indian dance performed by professional dancing girls
b.  (as modifier) a nautch girl
[from Hindi nāc, from Sanskrit nrtya, from nrtyati he acts or dances]
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Noun1.nautch - an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girlsnautch - an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls
nauch, nautch dance
dancing, terpsichore, dance, saltation - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
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Some of the illustrations, such as Tom Raw Attending a Nautch Party are reproduced here.
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Moving downstream, we meet a bankrupt landowner, Raja Neel Rattan; an American sailor, Zachary; Paulette, a young Frenchwoman, and her Bengali foster-brother Jodu; Benjamin Burnham, an unscrupulous British merchant, and his Bengali agent, Baboo Nob Kissin; and every style of nautch girl, sepoy and lascar.
Lascars, sepoys and nautch girls by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
He loved Persian and Urdu mushairas (poetry recitation sessions), smoked the hukkah (hubble-bubble), attended nautch (dance performance) soirees, and also had Indian artists in his pay who painted folios on subjects ranging from the cultural habits of the natives to the architectural remains that lay scattered across the Delhi plains.
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