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durwan India.|dɜːˈwɑːn|
Also 8 derwan, dirwan, door-van, 9 darwan.
[Hind. (a. Pers.) darwān.]
A porter or door-keeper.
1773E. Ives Voy. to India 50 Derwan. These are properly porters, who sit at the gate to receive messages, &c. 1781Bengal Gaz. 14 Apr. (Yule), A Door-van is well known to be the alarm of the House. 1784in W. S. Seton-Karr Sel. fr. Calcutta Gaz. (1864) I. 12 A most extraordinary and horrid murder was committed upon the Dirwan of Thomas Martin, Esq. 1874Calcutta Rev. LIX. 207 In the entrance passage..is a raised floor with one or two open cells in which the darwáns (or door keepers) sit, lie and sleep. 1926Blackw. Mag. June 726/2 His durwan..refused to awaken a sleeping man. |