Fakir (lit. poor), a member of an order of monkish mendicants in India and adjoining countries who, from presumed religious motives, practise or affect lives of severe self-mortification, but who in many cases cultivate filthiness of person to a disgusting degree.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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