Brewer's: Suttee

(Indian). A pure and model wife (Sanskrit, sati, chaste, pare), a widow who immolates herself on the funeral pile of her deceased husband. Abolished by law in British India.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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