Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.153
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.153
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1608-10.—"Quand elles vont à l'Eglise on les porte en palanquin . . . le dedans est d'vn grand tapis de Perse, qu'ils appellent Alcatif . . . "—*Pyrard, ii.* 62; *Hak. Soc. ii.* 102.