Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15981

1761.—“. . . I asked him where the Nabob was? Who replied, he was asleep in his Zunana.”—*Col. Coote, in Van Sittart*, i. 111.