Meanings
proper noun
- Former name of Kanpur: a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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.
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
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