Chapter VEDDAS to VERANDA of V by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

ancient … and has a paved Court, two large Verandas or Piazzas.”—Lockyer, 20.

c. 1714.—“Varanda. Obra sacada do corpo do edificio, cuberta o descuberta, na qual se costuma passear, tomar o sol, o fresco, &c., Pergula.”—Bluteau, s.v.

1729.—“Baranda. Especie de corredor o balaustrada que ordinariamente se colocà debante de los altares o escaléras, compuesta de balaustres de hierro, bronce, madera, o otra materia, de la altura de un medio cuerpo, y su uso es para adorno y reparo. Algunos escriven esta voce con b. Lat, Peribolus, Lorica clathrata.”—Golis, Hist. de Nueva España, lib. 3, cap. 15. “Alajábase la pieza por la mitad con un baranda o biombo que sin impedir la vista señalava

termino al concorso.”—Dicc. de la Ling. Cast. por la R. Acad.

1754.—Ives, in describing the Cave of Elephanta, speaks twice of “the voranda or open gallery.”—p. 45.

1756.—“… as soon as it was dark, we were all, without distinction, directed by the guard set over us to collect ourselves into one body, and sit down quietly under the arched Veranda, or Piazza, to the west of the Black-hole prison. …”—Holwell’s Narr. of the Black Hole [p. 3]; [in Wheeler, Early Records, 229].

c. 1760.—“… Small ranges of pillars that support a pent-house or shed, forming what is called, in the Portuguese linguafranca, Verandas.”—Grose. i. 53.

1781.—“On met sur le devant une petite galerie appellée varangue, et formée par le toit.”—Sonnerat, i. 54. There is a French nautical term, varangue, ‘the ribs or floor timbers of a ship,’ which seems to have led this writer astray here.

1783.—“You are conducted by a pretty steep ascent up the side of a rock, to the door of the cave, which enters from the North. By it you are led first of all into a feerandah (!) or piazza which extends from East to West 60 feet.”—Acct. of some Artificial Caves in the Neighbourhood of Bombay (Elephanta), by Mr. W. Hunter, Surgeon in the E. Indies. In Archaeologia, vii. 287.

„ “The other gate leads to what in this country is called a veranda or feranda (printed seranda), which is a kind of piazza or landing-place before you enter the hall.” —Letter (on Caves of Elephanta, &c.), from Hector Macneil, Esq., ibid. viii. 254.

1796.—“… Before the lowest (storey) there is generally a small hall supported by pillars of teka (Teak) wood, which is of a yellow colour and exceedingly hard. This hall is called varanda, and supplies the place of a parlour.”—Fra Paolino, E.T.

1809.—“In the same verandah are figures of natives of every cast and profession.”— Ld. Valentia, i. 424.

1810.—“The viranda keeps off the too great glare of the sun, and affords a dry walk during the rainy season.”—Maria Graham, 21.

c. 1816.—“… and when Sergeant Browne bethought himself of Mary, and looked to see where she was, she was conversing up and down the verandah, though it was Sunday, with most of the rude boys and girls of the barracks.”—Mrs. Sherwood’s Stories, p. 47, ed. 1873.

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