punkah in English

noun
1
(in India) a large cloth fan on a frame suspended from the ceiling, moved backward and forward by pulling on a cord.
I could tell it was her because of the punkah wallah holding a large sign bearing the words ‘Tessa Jowell IS HERE’.

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