palanquin in English

noun

1

(in India and the East) a covered litter for one passenger, consisting of a large box carried on two horizontal poles by four or six bearers.

There it was, a palanquin being carried by four men, all powerfully built and in immaculate robes of ivory colour.

noun

palankeen

Use "palanquin" in a sentence

1. I will present you with a new palanquin.

2. It is a palanquin from China.

3. Four attendants bore the queen's palanquin.

4. Did you get a new palanquin?

5. Good palanquin bearers are so hard to come by these days.

6. King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

7. A palanquin procession of Shani is held on the day of the fair.

8. I would love to have imported palanquin too, but my husband is so conservative.

9. You are riding in a palanquin and I am trotting by you on a red horse.

10. On landing , he conducted her to a palanquin, in which they repaired to the Club Hotel.

11. It is a one - horse palanquin, said the old gentleman, who was a wag in his way.

12. Chokey definition is - a station or post especially for collection of customs or for palanquin bearers or police.

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14. The Bonze [Buddhist monk] plays at chess in the pagoda of Juggernaut; the palanquin-bearing slave reflects how he may best checkmate a pebble king, on a chess-board traced on the sands of the Ganges; the Icelandic bishop whiles away the tedious gloom of a polar night with his long-calculated moves on the chess-board, commencing with that which