palanquins 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

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1. The writer of an article in the Calcutta Review, in 1844, drew a series of comparisons between Calcutta as it was in his day, and as it had been fifty years earlier; and, with much complacency and pride, enumerated the variety of carriages to be seen in the town—"Britzskas, barouches, landaulets, chariots, phaetons, buggies, palanquins, palki

2. The writer of an article in the Calcutta Review, in 1844, drew a series of comparisons between Calcutta as it was in his day, and as it had been fifty years earlier; and, with much complacency and pride, enumerated the variety of carriages to be seen in the town—”Britzskas, barouches, landaulets, chariots, phaetons, buggies, palanquins