Chief minister of the Zamʹorin or ancient sovereign of India.
“Begirt with high-plumed nobles, by the flood
The first great minister of India stood,
His name ‘the Catualʹ in India’s tongue.”
Camoens: Lusiad, book vii.
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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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