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A New Account of East-India and Persia choose

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[UK] Fryer New Account of East India II 88: The Moors are by Nature plagued with Jealousy, cloistring their Wives up, and sequestring them the sight of any besides the Capon that watches them.
at capon, n.
[UK] J. Fryer Account of East India and Persia III iv 126: I sent my Gulleon Peon…with his Master’s Chitty, or Pass, to the governor.
at chitty, n.
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