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sowarry Anglo-Indian.|sʌˈwɑːrɪ|
Also 8 sewarry, 9 sewary, sawarry, suwarree, sowarree, etc.
[Urdū (Pers.) sawārī, f. prec.]
The mounted attendants of a person of high rank, state official, etc.; a number of these forming a cavalcade.
1776Trial Nundocomar 43/2 Bollakey Doss went with his sewarry before us. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1835) II. 362 They must have tents, Elephants and other sewary. Ibid. (1844) I. 789 Which measure would..put an end to the use of the Company's sepoys as sowarry. 1813J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. 420, I was..often reprimanded..for leaving the suwarree, or state attendants, at the outer gate of the city. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. xiv, Orders were given that on the next day all should be in readiness for the Sowarree, a grand procession, when the Prince was to receive the Begum. |