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n. a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja
Word Usage
"Close to the spot where the maharanee had halted were some hangings of brocade arranged, as we understood later, so that the seated and veiled figure of a woman might observe the brilliant pageantry of the day from the privacy of this purdah."