Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12929
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12929
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1881.—"Another of these popular Paris sayings is ‘et ta sœur?’ which is as insulting a remark to a Parisian as the apparently harmless remark sālā, ‘brother-in-law,’ is to a Hindoo."—Sat. Rev., Sept. 10, 326.