Definition of "nauch" [nauch]

• An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls. (noun)

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• "Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt."
• "This hymn was tranilated at the requeft of a very learned and ingenious friend of mine, who was pleafed to find fuch juft fentiments of the Deity in a Heathen, and fo nauch poetry in a philofopher."
• "That we have not the whole Davideis is, however, not nauch to be re - gretted; tor in this undertaking Cowley is, tacitly at leaft, confefTecl to have mifcarried."