Definition of "tamasha" in Englisch

noun

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

   • c.1885, A.L.O.E. The Wondrous Sickle We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!

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