English Dictionary

tamasha

noun

A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing. / (colonial India, historical) Any traditional indigenous public ceremony.

I watched a mesmerizing tamasha performance in Maharashtra.

意味（1）

A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing.

We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!

意味（2）

(colonial India, historical) Any traditional indigenous public ceremony.

I went to a Tamasha, as the Indian troops call these affairs, one fine Sunday afternoon in May. A broad plateau in the middle of the fields had been selected for the sports, and when I arrived an enormous crowd, as picturesque as any I have ever seen, was thronging round the ropes.