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‖ palampore|ˈpæləmˌpɔə(r)| Also 7–9 palempore, 9 -pour. [Derivation uncertain. Yule and Burnell suggest a corruption of hybrid (Hind. and Pers.) palangpōsh bed-cover; which occurs as palangapuze in an Indo-Portug. Dict. of 1727. But Mr. Pringle (Madras Selections ser. iv. 71) suggests derivation from Pālanpur in Guzerat, ‘which seems to have been an emporium for the manufactures of North India’. Perhaps these words have been confused.] ‘A kind of chintz bed-cover, sometimes of beautiful patterns, formerly made at various places in India’ (Yule and Burnell).
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 34 Staple Commodities are Calicuts white and painted, Palempores, Carpets, Tea. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 51 These were only the dangling palampores and variegated tatters of his gay retinue. 1813Byron Giaour 666 A stain on every bush that bore A fragment of his palampore. 1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 78/1 The chintz and palampore of India long continued to be the prototypes of European printed calicoes. 1880G. C. M. Birdwood Ind. Art II. 98 The celebrated palampores, or ‘bed-covers’, of Masulipatam..which in point of art decoration are simply incomparable. |