Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.12
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c9.12
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920 *b.*—**Tiffin** add : 1784.—“Each temperate day With health glides away, No **Triffings** * our forenoons profane.” —*Memoirs of the Late War in Asia, by An Officer of Colonel Baillie’s Detachment*, ii. *Appendix*, p. 293.