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From Hindustani دروازہ / दरवाज़ा (darvāzā) + بند / बंद (band).
darwaza bund
- (India, archaic) Not at home; currently unwilling to receive visitors into one's house.
- Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases
