selictar

Keikhobade-Mirza, whose gracious and cordial reception touched me the more on account of the evident poverty of his household, pointed to this latter portrait, -- saying that in his father's lifetime he was, as I could see, his _selictar_, or royal shield-bearer, and enjoyed a brilliant station, but that now he was fallen; adding that he had sent me the shield which he had inherited -- the same which I saw represented in the picture -- knowing that

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851