Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.618

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1789.—“I doubt, however, very much whether he has had sufficient experience in the commercial line to enable him to manage so difficult and so important an *aurung* as Luckipore, which is almost the only one of any magnitude which supplies the species of coarse cloths which do not interfere with the British manufacture.”—*Cornwallis*, i. 435.