pariah arrack
English
Noun
- (India, obsolete) A poisonous home-brewed spirit commonly sold to European soldiers and sailors in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pariah arrack”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].