'...Precious, you have smut on your nose,' she [Meenakshi] added to Aparna, half looking around to tell an imaginary ayah to wipe it off with a handkerchief. (p.12)
Ayah is a female domestic servant in India, usually a maid and a nanny.
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My glossary for Vikram Seth's novel, "A Suitable Boy"
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Page numbers refer to the 1st U.S. paperback edition published by HarperPerennial (a division HarperCollins Publishers) in 1993.
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