boorka

English

Noun

boorka (plural boorkas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of burqa.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Beyond the Pale”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 117:
      So he went, that very night at eleven, into Amir Nath's Gully, clad in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman.

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