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Poona|ˈpuːnə|
Also Poonah.
Name of an Indian city in the Bombay Presidency (now in Maharashatra State); attrib. in Poona painting, an artistic process in imitation of oriental work, in which pictures of flowers, birds, etc. were produced on rice (or other thin) paper, by the application of thick body-colour, with little or no shading, and without background: fashionable in England in the early part of the 19th c. So Poona brush, a stumpy round-headed brush used for this; Poona paper, the paper on which it was done; Poona-painted a.; Poona painter. (See N. & Q. 10th s. VII. 107, 152.) Also as adj., with allusion to the attitudes, way of life, etc., held to be characteristic of the Army officers stationed there during British rule.
1821Examiner 272/2 The Poonah taught in a superior style. Ladies instructed in the above Elegant Art. 1822–3Pigot & Co.'s Directory, Cheltenham..Stanton Mrs., Indian poonah painter, 21 Bath Street. 1829Yng. Lady's Bk. 469 A piece of tracing-paper, of a peculiar manufacture, which is sold at the stationers' shops as Poonah-paper. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 153 What are called ‘mezzotinto’ pencil-drawings, ‘poonah paintings’, and what not. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 179 Two pairs of silver grape-scissors, a poonah-painted screen, a papier-mâche work-box. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 48 It may be applied by using a strong hog hair or poonah brush charged with vermilion. 1939G. Treast in Best One-Act Plays 1938 63 Major Manners is discovered playing patience... He is an elderly, heavily jovial man, who, in spite of twenty years' Isolation, remains essentially pukka and Poona. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral vi. 138 They're county people, all frightfully toffee-nosed and Poona. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline iv. 49 Blimey! Class consciousness rearing its ugly head... How Poonah-Poonah can you get? 1975A. Christie Curtain i. 7 One of your so British old Colonels—very ‘old school tie’ and ‘Poona’. |