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单词 chobdar
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chobdarn.

Brit. /ˈtʃəʊbdɑː/, U.S. /ˈtʃoʊbˌdɑr/, Indian English /ˈtʃoːbðaːr/
Forms: Also 1600s tschoadar, 1700s chubdar, chobedar, chopdar, 1800s choabdar.
Etymology: < Persian and Urdu chobdār < chob staff.
Anglo-Indian.
In India, an usher or beadle attending on persons of consequence, who bears as his ensign of office a staff overlaid with silver; ‘still a part of the state of the Viceroy, Governors, and Judges of the High Courts’ (Col. Yule).
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1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 25 The Tschoadar, who carries his Yagmourluk or Cloak for rain.
1701 in Wheeler Madras in Old T. (1861) I. 371 He had sent four Chobdars and 25 men, as a safeguard.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. XI. 443 A person of the meanest station, called a Chubdar, at best answering to our common beadle or tipstaff.
1810–17 M. Wilks Hist. Sketches S. India (ed. 2) II. xxxi. 110 The Chobdars and attendants were ordered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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