devadasi


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
devadasi /ˌdeɪvəˈdɑːsi/
noun (pl. devadasis) a female dancer in a Hindu temple.
– origin from Sanskrit devadāsī, lit. ‘female servant of a god’.
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