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cutcherry
[ kuh-cher-ee, kuhch-uh-ree ]
noun
- (in India) a public administrative or judicial office.
- any administrative office.
cutcherry
/ ˈ°ìÊŒ³Ùʃə°ùɪ /
noun
- (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cutcherry1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cutcherry1
Example Sentences
North of this citadel were the magazine, the Church, some European houses, and the cutcherry, or group of minor law courts, while the main thoroughfare leading in that direction passed through the Kashmir Gate.
They killed him, I have heard, after a fight on the roof of the cutcherry.â€
The Government lodged the geological specimens in the 'Collector's Cutcherry'—a house which forms a part—the oldest part—of the Museum buildings of to-day.
Before the Government acquired the house in 1830 for a Cutcherry, the house had been private property, and, under the name of the 'Pantheon,' it had been for many years the predecessor of the Old College as the 'Assembly Rooms', wherein Madras Society had its balls, its plays, and its big dinners.
Plenty of witnesses were forthcoming to give evidence against them; such can be purchased outside any cutcherry in India for a few rupees.
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