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名詞

Dhome (plural Dhomes)

1. A member of a low-ranking Indian caste traditionally employed in carrying dead bodies, removing carrion, etc.
   • 1866, Net Cast in Many Waters (page 181)

     But the poor Mehta or Pariah […] is not the lowest of his race. […] He looks down upon the Dhomes. […] the Dhomes are employed in pushing out into the course of the stream the decomposing bodies as they lodge on the banks.

   • 1921, The Asiatic Review (page 288)

     Dhomes are quite a large caste throughout India, but these, though known as Dhomes, are differentiated by the appellation Maghaya; in fact, they have no real connection with the Dhomes.

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “Dhome”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].