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- noun Plural form of
chaprassi .
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Examples
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The ponies followed behind, each with their attendant grooms, and two or three red-coated chaprassies, father stopping all along the road to talk to every native who wished to speak to him, while we three ran about, laughing and interested in everything.
Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch Eva Shaw McLaren 1914
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