Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a kind of sedan chair used in India.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the East Indies, a solid sedan-chair supported between two thick bamboo poles set crosswise and borne by four men.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a kind of sedan chair used in India
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers - they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence.
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But there was something stranger still: I'd just bidden farewell to Sardul's escort and my jampan, and was being conducted on foot by a yellow-clad officer of the Palace Guard, when I noticed an extraordinary figure lounging in an embrasure above the gate, swigging from an enormous tankard and barking orders at a party of Guardsmen drilling with the light guns on the wall.
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I saw another side to the Khalsa when we set out for Lahore after noon, Flashy now riding in state in his jampan, white topper and fly-whisk at the high port, with Jassa kicking the bearers 'arses to give tone to our progress.
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Now there were no friends before me, and no one to turn to except the Khyberie thug Jassa and our gaggle of bearers — they were there chiefly because Broadfoot had said I should enter Lahore in a jampan, to impress the Sikhs with my consequence.
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Her good name had plainly died in the late '20s, for she said it was a capital lark, and presently we were slipping through the bushes of Sale's garden, keeping clear of the dinner guests' jampan* (* A kind of sedan chair.) bearers, who were squatting by the front verandah.
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* (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them.
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Carriages were not then used as they are now, and my wife travelled in a _jampan_, a kind of open, half-reclining sedan chair, carried by relays of four men, while I rode or walked by her side.
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One of the men on the inner side of the road stumbled up the bank, and, losing his balance, let go the pole, and the jampan heeled over.
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As soon as the jampan tilted they let go, and directly they saw you had gone over they ran away.
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Elma's startled scream unnerved the other runners, who swerved and stumbled, and in a moment the jampan was overturned down the side of the
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