noun
- plural of fakeer: Muslim or Hindu religious ascetics who practice extreme self-denial
Usage: archaic spelling; variant of fakirs
Examples
- The old travel accounts described fakeers performing acts of self-mortification.
- European visitors to India often wrote about the mysterious fakeers they encountered.
- The fakeers lived in poverty, depending on charity for survival.
- Colonial literature frequently mentioned fakeers and their religious practices.
- Some fakeers were known to demonstrate remarkable feats of endurance.