Hobson-Jobson / A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

by Sir Henry Yule; A. C. Burnell

Innumeros piões, darmas e de ouro,

Guarnecidos, guerreiros, e lustrosos."

Camões, iii. 66.

By Burton:

"The King of Badajos was a Moslem bold,

with horse four thousand, fierce and furious knights,

and countless Peons, armed and dight with gold,

whose polisht surface glanceth lustrous light."

1609.—"The first of February the Capitaine departed with fiftie Peons...."—W. Finch, in Purchas, i. 421.

c. 1610.—"Les Pions marchent après le prisonnier, lié avec des cordes qu'ils tiennent."—Pyrard de Laval, ii. 11; [Hak. Soc. ii. 17; also i. 428, 440; ii. 16].