boorka
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[edit]Noun
[edit]boorka (plural boorkas)
- Obsolete spelling of burka.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Beyond the Pale”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 117:
- So he went, that very night at eleven, into Amir Nath's Gully, clad in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman.