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nautch, n.|nɔːtʃ|
Also nach, nách, nâch, natch.
[a. Urdū (Hindī) nāch, Prakrit nachcha, Skr. nṛitya, dancing, acting, f. nṛit- to dance.]
1. An East Indian exhibition of dancing, performed by professional dancing-girls.
α1809Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp xvi. (1892) 142 You Europeans are apt to picture to yourselves a Nach as a most attractive spectacle. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 174, I pass over the usual festivities of a native marriage, and the Nách given me by Fazal.
βc1813Mrs. Sherwood Ayah & Lady iv. 24, I thought of nothing but..going out to great dinners and nautches. 1862Beveridge Hist. India II. vi. viii. 781 Holkar was said to have had a grand nautch. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah 126, I could not have believed in the existence of an entertainment so extravagantly dull as a Nautch.
b. A nautch girl.
1872Browning Fifine xxxi, The Pariah of the North, the European Nautch!
2. attrib. and Comb., as nautch dance, nautch dancer, nautch girl, nautch woman.
1858W. H. Russell Diary in India II. 275, I don't think the *nautch dance calculated to improve their minds.
1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia vi. iv, A band of tinselled girls, the *nautch dancers Of Indra's temple.
1809Broughton Lett. Mahratta Camp xi. (1892) 93 Two sets of *Nach girls. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia i. iv, The nautch girls in their spangled skirts and bells.
1825Heber Journey (1828) II. 136 The *Nâch women were, as usual, ugly.
Hence nautch v. intr., to dance at or as at a nautch. Also ˈnautching vbl. n.
1851R. F. Burton Goa 125 When mere children they are initiated in the mysteries of nautching. 1859― Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 266 They will fly to their drums, rush about, jump, and nautch, as if hung on wires. |