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单词 memsahib
释义 mem·sahib
\ˈmem+ˌ-\ noun
Etymology: Hindi mem-ṣāḥib, from English mem (II) + Hindi ṣāḥib — more at sahib
: a foreign woman of the white race and some social status living in India
 < growing up to be another nice infuriating superior English memsahib — H.E.Bates >
especially : the wife of an English official or other white man of some social status in colonial India
 < found the white memsahibs more violently intoxicated with … race poison than their men — Edmond Taylor >
 < this is a memsahib's book, recalling … the last years of that ascendancy in India — Times Literary Supplement >
 < houses designed for British officials and their memsahibs — Christopher Rand >
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