We saw much of the embroidered fabrics known as "kincob" (properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference

Didn't they help themselves to all the plate and the money -- to several of my best dresses, and amongst others, to my favourite kincob gown; and I've never been able to get another like it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference

A dove-coloured kincob gown, embroidered with large trees, and made very low in front, displayed to the greatest possible advantage, the rounded proportions of her figure; while a high-heeled, red-leather shoe did not detract from the symmetry of a very neat ankle, and a very small foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference

On a raised dais hung with kincob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference

From behind the kincob curtains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference

He is the son of Colonel Newcome, C.B., who sends her shawls, ivory chessmen, scented sandalwood workboxes and kincob scarfs; who, as she tells Martha the maid, has fifty servants in India; at which Martha constantly exclaims, "Lor ', mum, what can he do with 'em, mum?" who, when in consequence of her misfortunes she resolved on taking a house at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Newcome, C.B., who sends her shawls, ivory chessmen, scented sandalwood workboxes and kincob scarfs; who, as she tells Martha the maid, has fifty servants in India; at which Martha constantly exclaims, “Lor’, mum, what can he do with ’em, mum?” who, when in consequence of her misfortunes she resolved on taking a house at Brighton, and letting part of the same furnished, sent her an order for a hundred pounds towards the expenses thereof; who gave Mr. Honeyman, her brother, a much larger sum of money at the period of his calamity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

Clothing: jama, rumal Fabrics: kincob Governmental terms: daroga, dewan, durbar, parganna, peshwa, purwannah, russud, sheristadar, zamindar Household items: charpoy, chillumchee, rezai Islamic terms: khaksar, khankah, pir, purdah Legal terms: benami, dastur Military: sepoy, subahdar Occupations: begari, bheesty, bildar, bobachee, chakar, chobdar, darzi, khansamah, mazdoor, phansigar, rahdar, shikari Titles: akhundzada, bahadur, shahzada, sirdar Miscellaneous: bas, bazigar, buckshee, bund, charka, chawbuck, cillum, dasturi, gunge, kajawah, koftgari, koomkie, sarod, shikar, shikargah, shikra, tabasheer From Arabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference