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Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan choose

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[Ind] 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.
[Ind] 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
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