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‖ ˈjampan E. Ind.
Also jampaun, jompon, janpan, etc.
[Bengālī jhāmpān, Hindī jhappān.]
A kind of sedan chair, carried by four men, used in the hill-country of India.
1832Mundy Pen & Pencil Sk. I. 284 We therefore persuaded him to take the jampaun and return. 1836Bp. Wilson Diary in Life (1860) II. xv. 108 We ordered our ponies and johnpons. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 248 The usual mode of travelling is by ‘jampauns’—a conveyance not unlike a large clumsy chair, having a top from which curtains are suspended. They are carried by four men by means of poles fixed to the sides. 1872Mrs. Valentine in Mem. iii. (1882) 37 We have a sort of chair called a ‘Jhampan’, carried by four men. 1886Yule Anglo-Ind. Gloss., Jompon. 1887J. C. Fife-Cookson Tiger Shooting 139 At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.
Hence ‖ jampaˈnee [Hindī jānpānī], a bearer of a jampan.
1859Lang Wand. India 11 Ladies and gentlemen on horseback, and ladies in janpans—the janpanees dressed in every variety of livery. 1879Times 17 Aug. (Y.), Every lady on the hills keeps her jampan and jampanees..just as in the plains she keeps her carriage and footmen. |