stones.”—Wheeler, ii. 246.
1759.—“To present to Omed Roy, viz. :— | 1 | Culgah | 1200 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | Surpage (sirpesh,
or aigrette) | 600 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | Killot (see Killut) | 250 | 0 | 0” |
—Expenses of Nabob’s Entertainment. In Long,
193.
1786.—“Three Kulgies, three Surpaishes (see Sirpech), and three Puduks (?) [padak, H. ‘a badge,
a flat piece of gold, a neck ornament’] of the value of 36,320 rupees have been despatched to you in a
casket.”—Tippoo’s Letters, 263.
[1892.—Of a Banjara ox—“Over the beast’s forehead is a shaped frontlet
of cotton cloth bordered with patterns in colour with pieces of mirror sewn in, and crowned by a kalgi or
aigrette of peacock feather tips.”—L. Kipling, Beast and Man in India, 147. [The word was also applied
to a rich silk cloth imported from India.
[1714.—In a list of goods belonging to sub-governors of the South Sea C.—“A pair of culgee window
curtains.”—2 ser. Notes & Q. VI. 244.]
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