| 单词 | old indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold Indian b. A European, esp. a British person, who resides or has resided in British India. Chiefly in old Indian, returned Indian, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > European Indian1751 Anglo-Indian1805 Indo-European1825 Hindu1830 Indo-Briton1831 sahib-log1848 1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless III. xx. 255 This young Indian had a great deal of..honest simplicity. 1814 C. Buchanan Christian Res. in Asia (ed. 10) 37 Old Indians in England will sometimes observe, that though they lived many years in the East, they never saw such things. 1816 M. Elphinstone in T. E. Colebrooke Life M. Elphinstone (1884) I. 367 Our best Indians. In the idleness and obscurity of home they look back with fondness to the country where they have been useful and distinguished. 1829 H. B. Henderson Bengalee 450 Bath, and Cheltenham... At the latter two, so many returned Indians are in the habit of congregating. a1901 R. W. Buchanan Sweet Nancy (1914) i. 17 Sir Roger's an old Indian, and used to begums. 1966 Eng. Hist. Rev. 81 65 The Political Committee consisted of a formidable array of old Indians, many of whom were jealous of tinkering with what had been Company policy. 1996 C. M. Wilbur China in my Life xiv. 158 What they told me sounded much like the reports I heard from returned Indians or Burmese. < as lemmas |
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