Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.258
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.258
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c10.258
“Plantains, the golden and the green,
Malaya’s nectar’d mangosteen;
Prunes of Bokhara, and sweet nuts
From the far groves of Samarkand.”
*Moore, Lalla Rookh.*