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Definition of Houdah
1. Noun. A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant.
Definition of Houdah
1. n. See Howdah.
Definition of Houdah
1. Noun. A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel. ¹
2. Noun. An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Houdah
1. howdah [n -S] - See also: howdah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houdah
Literary usage of Houdah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1884)
"I got into the houdah, and we proceeded as fast as possible to some rocks ...
Major C was in the front seat of the houdah, and could have got a fair shot at ..."
2. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 by Committee on Awards, World's Columbian Commission, United States (1901)
"JC Schweitzer, Munich: A silver elephant over 3 feet high with gorgeous trappings,
hearing on his hack a houdah containing a clock, on two sides of which ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1815)
"A heavy rain came on; the houdah was soon filled with water and broken by the
storm, and having sheltered himself under the lee of the elephant till ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh by James Mackintosh (1853)
"In these last circumstances it differs from a houdah, which I had seen at Poonah.
... Colonel Orr was on an elephant with a superbly embroidered houdah (or ..."
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