Cawnpore

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Cawnpore

  1. Archaic form of Kanpur.
    • 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett [], →OCLC, page 238:
      If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.