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- noun Plural form of
houdah .
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Examples
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Makers of harness, saddles, box-houdahs, and swinging litters of every variety and price, and contractors of camels, horses, and trains complete did not wait to be solicited; the competition between them was too lively for dignity.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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I went up to it in state, passing through lines of elephants, an hundred on either hand, covered with cloth of gold and with houdahs of yellow silk roofed with the glory of peacocks.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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I feel like knocking the face off a policeman, or else maybe like playing Coney Island straight across the board from pop-corn to the elephant houdahs. "
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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