Cawnpore

English

Proper noun

Cawnpore

  1. Archaic form of Kanpur.
    • 1890, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, London: Spencer Blackett:
      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.
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