peshcush
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editpeshcush (countable and uncountable, plural peshcushes)
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edit- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “peshcush”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].: "an offering or tribute, but with many specific and technical senses which will be found in Wilson, e.g. a fine on appointment, renewal, or investiture; a quit-rent, a payment exacted on lands formerly rent-free, or in substitution for service no longer exacted; sometimes a present to a great man, or (loosely) for the ordinary Government demand on land."