chuprassy

Updated: April 30, 2025

It is all color, bewitching color, enchanting color everywhere all around all the way around the curving great opaline bay clear to Government House, where the turbaned big native 'chuprassies' stand grouped in state at the door in their robes of fiery red, and do most properly and stunningly finish up the splendid show and make it theatrically complete. I wish I were a 'chuprassy'.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator