/ · 1894 Brewer’s · B · Banian or Banyan (A)
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A loose coat (Anglo-Indian).
“His coat was brownish black perhaps of yore,
In summer time a banyan loose he wore.”
Lowell: Fitz Adam’s Story (stanza 15).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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