单词 | dhaba |
释义 | dhaban. In India or in Indian contexts: a roadside food stall or restaurant. ΚΠ 1957 Times of India 11 June 1/4 The Chief Commissioner today issued a notification empowering the Deputy Commissioner..to close down any offices, restaurant, dhaba (small eating shop), and halwai establishments.] 1961 Times of India 26 Dec. 7/2 All hotels and restaurants and dhabas in Simla and its suburbs began an indefinite strike on Monday. 1987 N. Sibal Yatra 266 String cots and aluminium chairs stood beside dhabas selling tea and boiled eggs and looked up at the line of jeeps festooned with flags. 1999 C. B. Divakaruni Sister of my Heart ii. ix. 231 In the ill-lit, foul-smelling toilet of a roadside dhaba, I tear open the envelope. 2012 New Yorker 8 Oct. 111/2 Its unlikely sleuth is an illiterate Punjabi woman who runs a dhaba where London's immigrant underclass gathers for talk and tea. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1961 |
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