1835 E. Roberts Scenes & Characteristics of Hindostan I 96: The burra khanas, as they are called, at Calcutta, certainly afford a festal display, in which the eye, if not the palate, must take pleasure.at burra khana (n.) under burra, adj.
1835 E. Roberts Scenes & Characteristics of Hindostan I 143: The passage of such a cavalcade through the country is very amusing, but griffins only are seen to laugh.at griffin, n.1