Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15819
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15819
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1770.—“The mere breadth of these mountains divides summer from winter, that is to say, the season of fine weather from the rainy . . . all that is meant by winter in India is the time of the year when the clouds . . . are driven violently by the winds against the mountains,” &c.—Raynal, tr. 1777, i. 34.