Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.477
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.477
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1738.—“The common *apricot* . . . is . . . known in the Frank language (in Barbary) by the name of *Matza Franca*, or the Killer of Christians.”—*Shaw’s Travels*, ed. 1757, p. 144.