Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.532
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.532
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1605.—“A Chines borne, but now turn’d Iauan, who was our next neighbour . . . and brewed *Aracke* which is a kind of hot drinke, that is vsed in most of these parts of the world, instead of Wine.”—*E. Scot, in Purchas*, i. 173.