Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - pariah
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n. 1 a social outcast. 2 hist. a member of a low caste or of no caste in S. India. Phrases and idioms pariah-dog = PYE-DOG. Etymology: Tamil paraiyar pl. of paraiyan hereditary drummer f. parai drum ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(pariahs) If you describe someone as a pariah, you mean that other people dislike them so much that they refuse to associate with them. His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal, a pariah. = outcast N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 someone who is hated and avoided by other people (a social pariah) 2 old use a member of a very low social class in India ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1613, from Port. paria or directly from Tamil paraiyar, pl. of paraiyan "drummer" (at festivals, the hereditary duty of members of the largest of the lower castes of southern India), from parai "large festival drum." Especially numerous at Madras, where its members supplied most of the domestics in European service. Meaning "social outcast" is first attested 1819. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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