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darwaza bund en · X

Etymology

From Hindustani دروازہ / दरवाज़ा (darvāzā) + بند / बंद (band).

Meanings

1. (India, archaic) Not at home; currently unwilling to receive visitors into one's house.
   • “The young of both species are horrible. You would have scores of them in your salon.” “I would not!” said Mrs. Hauksbee, fiercely. “I would tell the bearer to darwaza band them. I'd put their own colonels and commissioners at the door to turn them away.” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 15:

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