maa
Example Sentences
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Author-Critic Lewis Mumford is a hard maa to please.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Your maa is angry with me over the earrings and would never give me cloth for the quilt or money to buy thread.”
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Hari laughed so at the story that his coughing became worse, and his maa sent me angrily from the room.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
My maa had pointed out to me just such a sari when we visited the shop where she took her work.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Like her maa before her, and her maa, and as far back as anyone could remember, the women in our family embroidered.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
