chattah

In Oude, the chattah cannot be used by the subject when in view of the sovereign; if the King's dunkah [15] be heard abroad, the people hide their chattahs, and even descend from their carriages, elephants, horses, or palkies, standing with their hands folded, in all humility, to make obeisance to the

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

The chattah is of corresponding costly materials (crimson velvet and gold), fringed also with red pearls.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

The royal chattah [14] (umbrella), of embroidered velvet, is supported over the head of Dhull Dhull.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

The embroidered chattah (umbrella); the afthaadah (embroidered sun); and chowries of the peacock's feathers, are also out-of-door distinctions allowed only to this lady and the members of the royal family.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

"I have on several occasions travelled on the back of an elephant in a much larger _howdah_ than is used for hunting, when I had a _chattah_ or umbrella held over my head."

Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

During the fall of 1842 this force destroyed important parts of the commercial infrastructure in Kabul such as the Mughal era covered bazaar known as the chahar chattah, and fruit-producing villages surrounding the city such as Istalif. 25 The occupation's end left the British attempt to transform Kabul's role in regional and interregional marketing networks incomplete, and the vengeful retaliation for the loss of the Army of the Indus dealt a severe blow to the local economy.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

I have known many of the first nobility in the Court of Oude, and English gentlemen in the King's suite, exposed to the rays of the morning sun, during the hottest season of the year; in these airings, the King alone has the benefit of a chattah, except the Resident happens to be of the party, who being always received as an equal, is privileged to the chattah, the chowrie, and the hookha; indulgences of which those only who have lived in India can possibly estimate the true value.

Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

“Dude, believe me,” he said in his thick Boston accent, “you need to shut out all the moronic chattah.

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

“Dude, believe me,” he said in his thick Boston accent, “you need to shut out all the moronic chattah.

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006