jampann.
East India.
A kind of sedan chair, carried by four men, used in the hill-country of India.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair
bearing-chair1352
seat1588
sedge1615
chair1634
man-litter1640
sedan1640
chair-volant1667
street-chaira1712
sedan chair1750
stick chair1800
tonjonc1804
jampan1828
1828 G. C. Mundy Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832) I. v. 284 We therefore persuaded him to take the jampaun and return.
1836 Bp. Wilson Diary in Life (1860) II. xv. 108 We ordered our ponies and johnpons.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 463 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.
1872 Mrs. Valentine in Mem. (1882) iii. 37 We have a sort of chair called a ‘Jhampan’, carried by four men.
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Jompon.
1887 J. C. Fife-Cookson Tiger-Shooting 139 At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.
Derivatives
jampaˈnee n. [Hindi jānpānī] a bearer of a jampan.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > bearer of (sedan) chair
chairman1682
hackney chairman1710
jampanee1859
sedanier1871
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 11 Ladies and gentlemen on horseback, and ladies in janpans—the janpanees dressed in every variety of livery.
1879 Times 17 Aug. Every lady on the hills keeps her jampan and jampanees..just as in the plains she keeps her carriage and footmen.
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