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- noun Plural form of
rickshaw .
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Examples
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Those who came to visit rode in rickshaws and nibbled on
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
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Those who came to visit rode in rickshaws and nibbled on
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
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The rickshaws are their form of taxis, they are three-wheeled little motored things and are pretty fun to ride in.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The "rickshaws" along Massachusetts Avenue, for example.
"Your new gods, your new ways, all seek to dispel me." greygirlbeast 2010
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The "rickshaws" along Massachusetts Avenue, for example.
"Your new gods, your new ways, all seek to dispel me." greygirlbeast 2010
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I have often heard of women being sent home to persuade their parents to borrow money from an NGO for their husbands to invest in business, including buying items such as rickshaws, vans, grocery shops or irrigation pumps.
open Democracy News Analysis - Comments Syed A Jamal 2009
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In contrast, Varkala town is almost completely Indian – rickshaws, lorries, taxis, cyclists and pedestrians competing for dominance on the central roundabout against a ceaseless cacophony of noise.
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The frenzied activity of Kappil beach swirls around them: fish are laid out to dry and bartered over, rickshaws and bicycles blow their horns, clothes are being washed, greetings, shouts – all a storm's outer rings to their eye.
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Fighting began Saturday at noon as up to 60 insurgents armed with suicide vests, vehicles and rickshaws crammed with explosives attacked the Kandahar intelligence service and police headquarters, the provincial governor's compound, various police stations and coalition infrastructure, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.
Taliban Hit Kandahar Maria Abi-Habib 2011
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Instead of a line of cars waiting for the green, we saw a line of 'vehicles' consisting of horse-drawn carriages, air-conditioned Mercedes, ox-drawn carts, passenger buses, bicycles, and rickshaws, all waiting for the policeman to blow the whistle.
Hemanshu Nigam: The Amazing Race: Back to Basics Hemanshu Nigam 2011
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