Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.530
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.530
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1554.—“And the excise on the *orraqua* made from palm-trees, of which there are three kinds, viz., *çura*, which is as it is drawn; *orraqua*, which is *çura* once boiled (cozida, qu. distilled?); *sharab* (zarao) which is boiled two or three times and is stronger than *orraqua*.”—*S. Botelho, Tombo*, 50.