Anglo-Indian. Also 8 sewarry, 9 sewary, sawarry, suwarree, sowarree, etc. [Urdū (Pers.) sawārī, f. prec.] The mounted attendants of a person of high rank, state official, etc.; a number of these forming a cavalcade.
1776. Trial of Nundocomar, 43/2. Bollakey Doss went with his sewarry before us.
1803. Wellington, in Gurw., Desp. (1835), II. 362. They must have tents, Elephants and other sewary. Ibid. (1844), I. 789. Which measure would … put an end to the use of the Company’s sepoys as sowarry.
1813. J. Forbes, Oriental Mem., III. 420. I was … often reprimanded … for leaving the suwarree, or state attendants, at the outer gate of the city.
1827. Scott, Surg. Dau., xiv. Orders were given that on the next day all should be in readiness for the Sowarree, a grand procession, when the Prince was to receive the Begum.
