Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9328

1832.—"A party of foreigners . . . wished to see what was going on at this far-famed mayllah. . . . "—Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali, Observations, ii. 321-2.]