Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15877

c. 1610.—“Les pièces d’or sont cherafins à vingt-cinq sols pièce.”—Pyrard da Laval, ii. 40; [Hak. Soc. ii. 69, reading cherufins].