Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.525
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.525
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c. 1420.—“At every *yam* (post-house) they give the travellers a sheep, a goose, a fowl . . . *arak*.”—*Shah Rukh’s Embassy to China*, in N. & E., xiv. 396.