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chawl
noun 3
Collocations
3VERB + CHAWL
came, inhabit
CHAWL + NOUN
kilometres
PREP.
from, from
Definitions
noun
1
A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.
noun
1
Jaw or cheek.
2
Jowl; cheek; face.
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I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
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Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood o
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