"pukka sahib" meaning in English

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        "3": "पक्का साहिब",
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  "etymology_text": "From Urdu پکا صاحِب / Hindi पक्का साहिब (pakkā sāhib, “genuine master”).",
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      "form": "pukka sahibs",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 135",
          "text": "'You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib.'",
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        {
          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 36",
          "text": "'Why iss it that always you are abusing the pukka sahibs, as you call them?'",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 April 22, Hasala Perera, “Sri Lanka in Lee Kuan Yew’s words”, in The Island (Sri Lanka)",
          "text": "His (Lee Kuan Yew) first visit to Sri Lanka coincided with the victory of Bandaranaike’s (S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike) newly created Sri Lanka Freedom Party, he calls him a dapper little man, well dressed, articulate and a ‘Pukka Sahib’ a term invented by the British to call the inhabitants of their colonies who followed their ways.",
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        "A person of excellent character."
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        "(informal) A person of excellent character."
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  "etymology_text": "From Urdu پکا صاحِب / Hindi पक्का साहिब (pakkā sāhib, “genuine master”).",
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        },
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