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Durbar

noun
(Written also darbar)
1.
The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur.





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... seem far-fetched in the present connection," said she, "yet as an expression of the real kingly instinct it has all that I mean. Some years ago the heir to the English throne—the one who died young—went out to India. One day he was holding a durbar of Indian chiefs, and they with their retinues stood drawn up in parade ready to offer homage as he passed along their ranks. Opposite was a great crowd of natives watching the spectacle, and at a certain point in that crowd stood, as a mere onlooker, ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman


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