Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.764
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.764
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c. 1569.—“After this I saw one that would have given a *barre* of Pepper, which is two Quintals and a halfe, for a little Measure of water, and he could not have it.”—*C. Fredericke*, in *Hakl*. ii. 358.