An Anglo-Indian term from the colonial period for a gardener or person employed in garden work. The word is an anglicised form of the Hindi or Urdu mali, meaning gardener. Common in colonial-era writing about Indian household staff and now archaic.
The malley came by each morning to water the pots and sweep the path.
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(India, obsolete) A gardener.
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