moonshee

American  

[moon-shee] / ˈmun ʃi /

noun

1. a variant of munshi.

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Example Sentences

Townsend used to say of the moonshee, "If there is a heaven, that old man is there."

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

I have picked them up by talking to the natives, and partly from the moonshee I have had, for four years.

From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter

We were invited to enter this splendid establishment by the moonshee, who had evidently ordered a refection to be prepared for the occasion.

From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Roberts, Miss Emma

I then asked him if he could not read, how could he know what was in the paper which he had brought, and how he knew my moonshee was the party meant.

From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by Inglis, James

We do not find the trace of any of them; all our information is Mr. Markham's moonshee, and some clerk of Durbege Sing's employed in Mr. Markham's private counting-house, in estimating revenues of a country.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund