Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15760
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15760
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1568.—“This Ganza goeth by weight of Byze . . . and commonly a Byza of Ganza is worth (after our accompt) halfe a ducat.”—*Caesar Frederike*, in *Hakl.* ii. 367.