subs. phr. (old).—1. The Bombay regiments of the East India Company’s army.
2. A well-known delicacy: see quots.
1865. G. A. SALA, Daily Telegraph, 14 August, 5, 4. His cuisine was, with the occasional interpolation of a not entirely objectionable curry, accompanied by BOMBAY DUCKS, exclusively old-fashioned English.
1886. G. A. SALA, in Illustrated London News, 7 August, 138, 2. The BOMBAY DUCK is the Anglo-Indian relation of the Digby chick. Alive, it is a fish called the bummelo; dead and dried, it becomes a DUCK.
