Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9297
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9297
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1693.—“Gold, purified from all other metals . . . by us is reckoned as of four-and-Twenty Carats, but by the blacks is here divided and reckoned as of ten mat.”—Havart, 106.