Sikhs
[si:ks]
Definition
(n. pl.) A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.
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Examples
- We were shut up in Bhurtee, the regiment of us with half a battery of artillery, a company of Sikhs, and a lot of civilians and women-folk. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Sikhs, the Gurkhas, the Punjab troops stuck to the British. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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