They brought us trays of native refreshments, while the nautch girls danced, handed each guest a nosegay and placed a pair of cocoanuts at his feet, which had some deep significance--I could not quite understand what.
As soon as he was seated a group of nautch dancers, accompanied by a native orchestra, appeared and performed one of their melancholy dances.
They have their own peculiar customs and rules, similar to those of the geishas of Japan, and if a nautch is so fortunate as to inherit property it goes to the temple to which she belongs.
The nautch is apparently repeated daily until the conclusion of the festival.
The Maharajah gave a nautch (native dance by women) that night.
Then Coplinghee Ranee asked the Nautch woman the same question, saying, "And who may you be, and where are you going?
It happened in the town where the merchant lived there was a very accomplished Nautch girl,[62] named Champa Ranee.
And the Nautch people gave him a drink that was a very powerful spell, insomuch that he soon totally forgot about his own home, and was married to Moulee, the Nautch girl, and lived among the Nautch people for many months.
Vicram Maharajah was hidden behind the image and heard her, and said-- "Champa Ranee Nautch girl, your prayer is heard!
Moreover, she danced and sang more beautifully than any of the other Nautch girls.
The Nautch people used to travel about from place to place, staying one day in one town and the next in another, and so it happened that in their wanderings they reached the borders of the land where Koila and Chandra lived.
The Nautch woman answered, "I am a dancing woman and I also have no children, and am going to seek Mahdeo and pray to him for a child.
Now, neither the Ranee, the Nautch woman nor the Sowkar's wife had ever seen each other before they met at the river-side.
The Tamil Melakkarans perform both the periyamelam and the nautch music.
The periyamelam always finds a place at weddings, but the nautch is a luxury.
Sir Evelyn protested feebly against a Nautch Girl dance in a pageant of eighteenth century English life; but he was not allowed to say very much.
Smugglers or pirates are sure to be mixed up with nautch girls, whatever they are.
What kind of platform would be provided for the Nautch Girl dance?
Then the young Prince gave orders that all the nautch people should be put into jail until it could be discovered what part they had taken in reducing his father to so pitiable a state.
An idea seems to prevail in many Occidental minds that theNautch dance is a very naughty thing; but nothing is further from the truth.
The troupe numbers about a dozen girls, and they have come to the merry-making at the Kootub to gather honest shekels by giving exhibitions of their terpsichorean talents in the Nautch dance.
On the whole, the Nautch dance would be disappointing to most people witnessing it; its fame leads one to expect more than it really amounts to.
Food is served up to him three times a day, and there is a nautch going on while he is supposed to eat.
There was another immense nautch provided, which we had not time to look at.
In the evening we went to a nautch at Colonel Skinner's.
One little fat nautch girl sang a sort of passionate song to G.
Bayadères, or Nautch girls, as they are often called in a general way, are of many grades.
The name "rand" given to a widow "is the same that is borne by a Nautch girl or a harlot.
The dress of theNautch girl is brightly coloured, of rich material brilliantly decorated with embroidery and precious stones.
In India there are two classes of dancers--those consecrated to the service of the pagodas, and those known as Nautch girls, or to give them their Portuguese title, Bayadeses.
They had come down from London for their last week-end before going to Marseilles to join the Nautch Girl.
One evening Jabhu Raja's servants had a grand nautch in the Raja's compound, and the Raja and his sons and the neighbouring Rajas all came to see it.
Nautch (natya), a union of song, dance, and instrumental music.
Prince Monkey was sitting looking on at the nautch when suddenly his heart told him his wife had burnt his skin.
But for this sporadic diving, the wrestling bouts which are common everywhere, the Nautch and the jugglers, India seems to have no pastimes.
Personally I adore the Russian Ballet, but I found the Nautch very fatiguing.
Lights came out in high windows and sounds of bagpipes and beating tom-toms began inside the open doors of a nautch house.
These emigrants from India brought with them a number of nautch girls whose dances were highly appreciated by the people of the land in which they had newly settled.
The former, which stands highest in public estimation is probably derived from the Nautch dances of India.
Her Nautch Dance, with its whirling fountain of golden tissue, she sets in the palace of a rajah, where it serves a social purpose similar to that of the Dance of Greeting already described.
The Nautch girls are purchased in infancy, and as carefully trained in their wordly way as the Devo Dasi for the diviner function, being about equally depraved.
After travelling a long way Chandralekha and her party reached the nautch pavilion at about five ghatikas before sunset.
My masters in the forest have made a plan to give a nautch to their relatives on the occasion of a wedding which is to take place there the day after to-morrow.
Hired dancers added to the gaiety at night, and each incoming nobleman brought nautch girls, or acrobats, or trained animals, or all three to add to the revelry.
Patali, for instance, reckless of Gungadhura's fall and looking for new fields to conquer, provided a nautchby herself and her own trained galaxy of girls that would not have done at all in public.
And no one laughed or cried at anything; neither at the nautch girl with her unmentionable songs, nor the spectacle of people discussing freedom while engaged in taking it away from two harmless infants.
The Nautch Girl's arms, I assured him, move in unison with her tiny, naked feet, which fall on earth as mute as snow.
We would prefer to take a walk until your cornerman is through: at what time will the Nautch Girls appear?
That Nautch Girl is dance now, ver' good, ver' good.
On the way to Earl's Court, I filled up the Boy with such general information about Nautch Girls, as I had gathered in my studies.
The person we had taken for a Christy Minstrel was the wantonly winding, lingeringly languishingNautch Girl!
Tying on the bells for the first time is quite a solemn function, as it implies adopting for ever the career of a Nautch dancer, from which no withdrawal is possible.
In native national life the Nautchplay a large part, and legend has a great deal to say about them.
After endless journeyings and adventures he at last found his royal parent, ragged but picturesque, taking part in a Nautch festival, and after much difficulty persuaded him to return home.
At once a spell is woven, which is completed by a charmed drink, with the result that he forgets friends, family and country, and enters for ever into the Nautch community.
As soon as we had taken our seats the Nautch commenced.
On the second day the chief came on board to ask us if we would attend a Nautch which he gave that evening in compliment to us; but requested that we would not bring all our people, as it would frighten his own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nautch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
