simkin

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Demijohns of French loll-shrub and carboys of iced simkin.

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  1. The common Anglo-Indian word for champagne. Also spelled simpkin. A basket of simkin, which is as though one should say champagne, behind [the chariot]. J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 283.

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  • Demijohns of French loll-shrub and carboys of iced simkin. —  Alanat News
  • The mild Hindoo imbibes it quietly, but approvingly, as he watches the evolutions of the Nautch girls, and his partiality for it has already enriched the Anglo-Bengalee vocabulary and London slang with the word “simkin.” —  Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines
  • She kept the bridecake, and enclosed to the gallant captain Gosslett's bill for the dozen of simkin that excellent firm had sent in to wash it down wherewithal. —  Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
 

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  1. A Hindustani form of English champagne
 

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