Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.280
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.280
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1250.—“Li grand amiraus des galies m’envoia querre, et me demanda si j’estoie cousins le roy; et je le di que nanin . . .” —Joinville, p. 178. This passage illustrates the sort of way in which our modern use of the word admiral originated.