Hindoo

English

Noun

Hindoo (plural Hindoos)

(dated) A Hindu.
- 1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 80, page 237)
  Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India.

Adjective

Hindoo (not comparable)

(dated) Hindu, Indian.

Anagrams

N.D. Ohio, hoondi

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