Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.599

1689.—(Surat) “is renown’d for . . . rich Silks, such as Atlasses . . . and for Zarbafts [Zerbaft] . . .”—Ovington, 218.