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An Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch choose

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[Ind] [Grant Colesworthey] Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch 4: The salams of the domestics tendered to the ‘Burra Mem,’ – and the morning meal, as common to India, of boiled rice, fried fish, eggs, omelet, toast and tea.
at burra mem (n.) under burra, adj.
[Ind] [Grant Colesworthey] Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch 98: I think that a greater quantity of note paper must be consumed in Calcutta and the other presidencies, than in London, Edinboro’, Dublin and Paris, put together! – and that if one other to the various appellations of ‘Curry eaters’ – ‘Muls’– ‘Ducks, ‘ and ‘Qui hy’s’ by which the society of India has been honoured and distinguished, were needed, it might characteristically be found in the designation of ‘the chit writers’.
at curry-eater (n.) under curry, n.
[Ind] G. Colesworthy Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch 68: Griffinage is the isthmus of a middle state between English and Indian life. It is the second infancy, as it were, of all who quit the ‘tight little island’ for the fervid shores of Ind.
at griffinage (n.) under griffin, n.1
[Ind] [Grant Colesworthey] Anglo-Indian Domestic Sketch 98: The various appellations of ‘Curry eaters’ – ‘Muls’– ‘Ducks, ‘ and ‘Qui hy’s’ by which the society of India has been honoured and distinguished.
at mull, n.1
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