Obs. Forms: 8 sirpeach, surpage, -peach, 9 -paich, -peych, -paish, sirpesh. [a. Urdū sarpēch, = Pers. serpēsh.] An ornament of gold, silver or jewels, on the turban.
1753. Hanway, Trav., IV. 191, note. A sirpeach, which is wore round the turbant.
1759. in Long, Select. Unpubl. Rec. Fort William (1869), I. 193. 1 Culgah … 1200. 0. 0. 1 Surpage … 600. 0. 0.
1776. Francis, Lett. (1901), I. 321. Betsey is charmed with the surpeach and flatters herself it is diamond.
1811. Kirkpatrick, trans. Lett. Tippoo Sultan, 263. Three Kulgies, three Surpaishes, and three Puduks. [Note.] Surpaich, or Surpaish, that is the Aigrette.
