Lexicographical Neighbors of Pattamars
Literary usage of Pattamars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wonders of Elora: Or, The Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and by John Benjamin Seely (1825)
"Departure—Sporting in India—Friends who accompanied the Author—Scenery on the
water—Butcher's Island—Elephanta —pattamars— ..."
2. The English Factories in India, 1622-1623: A Calendar of Documents in the by William Foster (1908)
"Yesterday met two ' pattamars ' [foot-posts] bringing letters from Surat, which
he opened and read, and then sent on to Agra. ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"Between Bombay and Surat there is a constant intercourse preserved, not only by
sea . . . but by pattamars, or foot-messengers overland."—(Irose, i. 119. ..."
4. An Old Shropshire Oak by John Wood Warter (1886)
"to me that, as not unconnected with the subject in hand, I might refer to the
keels of the Tyne and the pattamars of Calicut. The account of the first is ..."
5. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"... which he intends Speedily to send for I send two pattamars that in case one
should miscarry the other might arrive. ANTO. CAMEI. ..."
6. The Diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), During by William Hedges (1888)
"... which he intends Speedily to send for I send two pattamars that in case one
should miscarry the other might arrive. ANTO. ..."
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