pariah arrack

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

pariah arrack (uncountable)

(India, obsolete) A poisonous home-brewed spirit commonly sold to European soldiers and sailors in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Alternative forms[edit]

pariar arrack

See also[edit]

fool rack

References[edit]

Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pariah arrack”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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