Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9077
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9077
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1782.—"He marched . . . with two battalions of sepoys . . . who were ordered to make a show of entrenching themselves with mamuties. . ."—Letter of Ld. Macartney, in Forrest, Selections, iii. 855.]