jampan
IPA: dʒˈæmpʌn
noun
- (historical) A kind of litter or palanquin formerly used in India.
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Examples of "jampan" in Sentences
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- * (* 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.
- 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.