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# Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15982

Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15982

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### [c10.15982](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15982)

1780.—“It was an object with the Omrahs or great Lords of the Court, to hold captive in their Zenanahs, even hundreds of females.”—\*Hodges, Travels\*, 22.

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