chowkn.
/tʃaʊk/, U.S. /tʃaʊk/ India.
An open place in the middle of a city where the market is held; a main street.
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1832 T. Skinner Excurs. India I. ii. 49 The Chandy Choke, in Delhi,..is perhaps the broadest street in any city in the East.
1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 20 One evening we all gathered round the big fire in the village ‘chowk’.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 700/1 In the Chowk or Square of A., one of the most sacred cities of Hinduism.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 700/2 Padre Armstrong had been lent a pulpit in a corner of the Chowk.
1961 B. Cooper Touch of Thunder lii. 286 We stood stranded for one fleeting minute in the middle of Chowk.
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