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Suttee vs Puttee - What's the difference?

suttee | puttee |

As a noun suttee

is the custom and/or act of a hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.

As a verb puttee is

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suttee

English

Noun

  • The custom and/or act of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.
    • English terms derived from Hindi

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    puttee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 113:
  • *:he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.

    • References

    * McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary , Oxford university press. 1993 * Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884. * Cappeller, Carl A Sanskrit-English dictionary Bostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.