Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15953

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c. 1772.—"We have seen this small hunched ox alive. . . It was shown at the fair in Paris in 1752 (*sic*, but a transcript from the French edition of 1837 gives 1772) under the name of Zebu; which we have adopted to describe the animal by, for it is a particular breed of the ox, and not a species of the buffalo."—*Buffon's Nat. Hist., E.T. 1807, viii. 19, 20; see also p. 33.*