Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.755
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.755
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1883.—"The chiefs half filled the nicely-padded coffin with bufta (bleached calico) . . . after that the corpse and then the coffin was filled up with more bufta . . ."—In Ch. Missy. Intelligencer, n.s., viii. p. 543.