poojah

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Noun

poojah (countable and uncountable, plural poojahs)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pooja..
    • 1840, Sir William Henry Sleeman, Report on the Depredations Committed by the Thug Gangs of Upper and Central India: From the Cold Season of 1836-37, Down to Their Gradual Suppression, Under the Operation of the Measures Adopted Against Them by the Supreme Government, in the Year 1839, Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, →OCLC, page 42:
      No other person but the Chaur is allowed to touch them; and while the poojah (religious ceremony) is going on all must keep themselves pure []
    • 1800, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Accounts and Papers: Volume 65, page 67:
      Laſt is the Gunta-Poojah, which is plaiſtering the bell with ſandal wood.