Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.281
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.281
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c. 1345.—“The Master of the Ship is like a great amir; when he goes ashore the archers and the blackamoors march before him with javelins and swords, with drums and horns and trumpets.”—Ibn Batuta, iv. 93.