Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15761
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15761
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1626.—“In anno 1622 the Myne was shut up . . . the comming of the Mogull’s Ambassadour to this King’s Court, with his peremptory demand of a *Vyse* of the fairest diamonds, caused the cessation.”—*Purchas, Pilgrimage*, 1003.