, a tree in the pea family .
India has been transferred from the regions of romance to the realms of fact the mines of Golconda no longer pay the cost of working, and the pagoda-tree has been stripped of all its golden fruit.
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(India, dated, idiomatic, colloquial) The opportunity to make money rapidly in British India.
It might be mistaken for the work of some modern architect, built for the Nabob of a couple of generations back, who had enriched himself when the pagoda-tree was worth the shaking.
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