Brewer's: Sepoy

The Indian soldier is so called, says Bishop Heber, from sip, a bow, their principal weapon in olden times. (Sipahi, a soldier.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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