Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12897
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12897
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1820.—"The Portuguese, I know not for what reason, and other European nations who have followed them, call the tree and the liquor *sagwire*."—*Crawfurd, Hist.* i. 401.