(n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
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Wallah
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(n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
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(1) Wallah [I swear] it was a decision I was very happy I made, and it’s a good system that they’re running here,” he says.
(2) But what may seem to some an affably quirky and semi-amateur operation (one where Ingrams still refers to the in-house accountants as "box wallahs") is a very successful business which is bucking the trend of the decline of print media.
(3) Though José Ignacio is a playground for the wealthy, this isn't an Indian Ocean resort or Côte d'Azur beach club - there are no extravagant infinity pools or luxury hotels with corps of uniformed cocktail wallahs.
(4) Not far from Hanjra's house lies Chah Muslim Wallah, a 40-house village swamped by an overflowing irrigation canal.
(5) There are records of performances by expats in the 1770s, and also of actors visiting from England – a tradition that continued to the dying days of British rule, when Geoffrey Kendal and his troupe roamed the subcontinent playing everything from boarding schools to maharajas' palaces (an odyssey recorded in the semi-autobiographical film Shakepeare-Wallah ).