khitmatgar

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1. BritishIndiaSouth AsiaA male servant, with responsibility for waiting at table.

   ‘The Ambassador to Bangalore appeared before me dressed in the robes of a khitmagar or majordomo.’

   1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1108

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   I found her closely locked in the arms of a handsome lad, one of my kitmuddars, with the infant by her side, all three being in a deep sleep, from which I awakened the two elders.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 384

   He did not know then that his khitmatgar had stopped by the roadside to get drunk, and would come on the next day saying that he had sprained his ankle.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 94

   Synonyms: khit