Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13119

1785.—". . . Her clothes were taken off, and a red silk covering (a *saurry*) put upon her."—*Acct. of a Suttee, in Seton-Karr, i. 90.*