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Definition of Banians
1. banian [n] - See also: banian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banians
Literary usage of Banians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"In Oman, the banians are allowed ... with the banians, and treat them with lefs
contempt than their Arabian brethren. ..."
2. India Tracts by John Zephaniah Holwell (1774)
"Jf they are banians ... before that period Hooped to be banians to the gentlemen
in your ... or by banians who were entirely dependant on them. ..."
3. Notes of Travel: Or, Recollections of Majunga, Zanzibar, Muscat, Aden, Mocha by Joseph Barlow Felt Osgood (1854)
"Muscat owes much of its importance and wealth to that portion of its people known
as banians, who monopolize the foreign trade here as in most other places ..."
4. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1867)
"I have already shown, amongst the mass of his corruptions, that he let the whole
of the lands to farm to the banians ; next, that he sold the whole Mahom- ..."
5. Around the World with Eyes Wide Open: The Wonders of the World Pictured by by Henry Allen Tupper (1898)
"While visiting the bazaars, accompanied by an intelligent guide, I passed banians
of Guzerat, Mahrattas from the Deccan, Mussulmans, Afghans, Persians, ..."
6. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1851)
"... Collection of the Garden of banians. Tins work is the one tint is mentioned
on pige 41 of the present volume, where it is culler] ..."
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