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rickshaw, ricksha|ˈrɪkʃɔː, ˈrɪkʃə|
Also riksha, rikisha.
Abbreviation of jinricksha.
1887Pall Mall G. 24 Aug. 5/2 There can be no impropriety in ladies..riding in our easy and delightful Rikshas. 1889Kipling Phantom Rickshaw 17 The 'rickshaw came to a dead stop. 1896Month May 36 The sight of the rickshaw carried me back to the Flowery Land.
attrib.1886Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1899) 65 He..Shall watch each flashing 'rickshaw-light. c1890Yoshiwara Episode 18 Pimps in the guise of rickshaw coolies. 1894Spectator 12 May 656 The rickshaw kills the rickshawman. 1915G. Frankau Tid'apa ii. 10 ‘Come here. Come up here, dear,’ they cry To the drunkly-waving seaman as his rickshaw-wheels roll by. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 173 The rickshaw boys begin to understand. 1933M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 144 The rickshaw⁓wallah ran away with us, his sandals padding. 1951R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ii. 34 Zulu Rickshaw-pullers..emptied quarts of heady ‘tchwala’. 1969Observer 29 Oct. 29/2 A posse of rickshaw-cycles and cyclists come tearing round the corner. 1973Country Life 1 Nov. 1322/2, I found myself face to face with a hundred rickshaw-tricycle boys. 1977‘S. Leys’ Chinese Shadows (1978) iii. 108 His father, a rickshaw ‘boy’, always beaten up by capitalists, was covered with welts and scars. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 3/2 They were privileged to support servants and dealers, Chinese teachers.., horse boys, amahs, cooks, guides, ricksha men. 1978Chinese Lit. xii. 13 He decides to become a rickshaw-puller, the lowest of the low. |