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‖ carcoon Anglo-Ind.|kɑːˈkuːn|
Also -koon.
[Mahrattī kārkūn clerk, a. Pers. kār-kun operator, manager, f. kār action, work, business.]
A clerk.
1803Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. II. 161 A carkoon whom he sent to me this morning. 1816Elphinstone in Q. Rev. (1884) 374 The carcoon who brought it missed the detachment. 1858Beveridge Hist. India III. viii. i. 267 ‘He laboured’, says Duff, ‘as assiduously as any carcoon under his government.’ |