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sepoy
[ see-poi ]
noun
- (formerly, in India) a soldier, usually an infantryman, in the service of Europeans, especially of the British.
sepoy
/ ˈsiːpɔɪ /
noun
- (formerly) an Indian soldier in the service of the British
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sepoy1
C18: from Portuguese sipaio, from Urdu sipāhī, from Persian: horseman, from sipāh army
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Example Sentences
Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
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Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
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It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Agra itself.
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It should be explained that a sepoy (properly “sipahi”) is an infantry soldier, and a sowar a mounted one.
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The Sikh ranks had been mainly recruited from our disbanded Sepoy soldiery and deserters.
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