chapattin.
Anglo-Indian.
A small cake of unleavened bread, generally made of coarse wheaten meal, flattened with the hand, and baked on a griddle. ‘The usual form of native bread and the staple food of Upper India’ (Yule).
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1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum II. 348 Chow-patties, or bannocks.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 67 The passage of the chupatties attracted little attention, and every sign seems to have been neglected.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Chapata (Hindustani), a thin unleavened cake of flour and water, toasted or baked over a fire.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxii. 65.
1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs v. 87 To give him a chowpatti..to keep his wretched old body alive.
1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 107 One-third is fair and shiny chupatti.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 4/3 All histories of the Mutiny relate that about the time of the outbreak mysterious ‘chapatis’ began to circulate among the people.
1934 F. Stark Valleys of Assassins v. 282 A wizened baby doomed to die was being fed on milk and chupattis.
1963 Times 14 Feb. 14/7 We fed them on roast goat and greasy rice and chupattis and tea.
1965 E. Linton World in Grain of Sand ii. 19 The staple diet of dal and chapattis (beans and unleavened bread).
1970 Guardian 8 Apr. 12/3 Young ladies have been dispensing tea and chappatis to hungry comrades.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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