Punjaubee

English

Noun

Punjaubee (plural Punjaubees)

  1. Archaic spelling of Punjabi.
    • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 236:
      For two nights I kept the watch with my Punjaubees. They were tall, fierce-looking chaps, Mahomet Singh and Abdullah Khan by name, both old fighting men, […]
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