samlorn.
/ˈsamlɔː/ Chiefly in Thailand, a three-wheeled vehicle, frequently motorized, used as a taxi.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage > three-wheeled, in Thailand
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1955 Times 6 May 11/6 Let him be insidiously towed in a motor samlor round this town of Bangkok.
1960 R. Kirkbride Innocent Abroad xi. 82 We crossed a humped bridge..in the city, dodging about amongst cycle-rickshaws and samlors.
1963 ‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 54 Peter would photograph her in front of the temples of Angkor, stepping down from a samlo, the three-wheeled vehicle, man-propelled, in use in Cambodia.
1974 Time 7 Jan. 50/2 The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building.
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