Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9162

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c. 1590.—"The Mangoe (*Anba*). . . . This fruit is unrivalled in colour, smell, and taste; and some of the *gourmands* of Túrán and Írán place it above musk melons and grapes. . . . If a half-ripe mango, together with its stalk to a length of about two fingers, be taken from the tree, and the broken end of its stalk be closed with warm wax, and kept in butter or honey, the fruit will retain its taste for two or three months."—*Aīn*, ed. Blochmann, i. 67-68.