johar /ˈdʒəʊhɑː/ noun1 •(historical) The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid their being captured by an enemy.No flames here, though; the last ones were quenched over two hundred years ago when Rani Padmini and her women jumped into the johar fires the day Alauddin Khilji captured Chittor. — 1997
