Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.266
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.266
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1799.—“Many of the largest Ceylon and other Deccany Elephants bore **ambáris** on which all the chiefs and nobles rode, dressed with magnificence, and adorned with the richest jewels.”—*Life of Colebrooke*, p. 164.