sawarin.
/sʌˈwɑːri/ Anglo-Indian.
The mounted attendants of a person of high rank, state official, etc.; a number of these forming a cavalcade.
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1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 43/2 Bollakey Doss went with his sewarry before us.
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1835) II. 362 They must have tents, Elephants and other sewary.
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 789 Which measure would..put an end to the use of the Company's sepoys as sowarry.
1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. xxxv. 420 I was..often gently reprimanded..for leaving the suwarree, or state attendants, at the outer gate of the city.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. xv. 348 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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