C — CUBEB to CULGEE (Part 3 of 3)

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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