Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.631
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.631
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1813.—“. . . amadavats, and other songsters are brought thither (Bombay) from Surat and different countries.”—*Forbes, Or. Mem.* i. 47. [The 2nd ed. (i. 32) reads amadavads.]