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† ˌEast ˈIndia Obs. exc. attrib.
Formerly used = (the) East Indies. East India Company: a company formed for carrying on an East Indian trade, especially the English company incorporated in 1600, and described in its charter as ‘The Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies’, which from 1773 exercised political power in the East, and had the chief part in the administration of the affairs of Hindustan, till 1858, when the government was assumed by the Crown. East India fly, an East Indian species of Cantharis or blister-fly; East Indiaman, a ship of large tonnage engaged in the East India trade.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 187, I account so farre of East India, as is from eighteene degrees north..to..Cape Comrein. 1655E. Terry (title), A Voyage to East India. a1691Boyle Wks. VI. 192 (R.) Our own eight East India ships..are all safe in our harbours. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3980/4 Lost a New East-India Company's Bond..for 150l. 1709Steele Tatler No. 31 ⁋2 A Boatswain of an East-India Man. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 49 The East India Company was incorporated about..1600. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xx. (1862) 395 The crew of a West Indiaman or an East Indiaman.
b. In Anglo-Indian use sometimes attrib. = Eurasian.
1831Asiatic Jrnl. New Ser. VI. ii. 106 Some elaborate speeches..were delivered by members of the East-India community.
▸ East India pale ale n. = India pale ale n. at India n. Additions.
1841Times 13 July 7/4 (advt.) Bass's *East India Pale Ale. 1876E. Smith Foods xxxvi. 412 At the present day there may be 10 per cent. [alcohol] in the strong East India pale ale. 1955R. Postgate Story of Year: 1848 x. 268 You may care to note that Bass's October brew of East India Pale Ale is ‘just now arriving from Burton-on-Trent, in fine condition’. 1999Country Living May 116/2 Also worth inhaleing..[is] the Brooklyn Brewery's gypsum-rich East India Pale Ale, with muscular maltiness tempered by English hops. |