Anglo-Ind. Also chow-patty, -ie. [Hindī chapāti.] A small cake of unleavened bread, generally made of coarse wheaten meal, flattened with the hand, and baked on a griddle. ‘The usual form of native bread and the staple food of Upper India’ (Yule).
1810. T. Williamson, E. Ind. Vade-mecum, II. 348 (Y.). Chow-patties or bannocks.
1858. J. B. Norton, Topics, 67. The passage of the chupatties attracted little attention, and every sign seems to have been neglected.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, III. xxxii. 65.
1883. F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, v. 87. To give him a chowpatti … to keep his wretched old body alive.
