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Definition of Jampan
1. Noun. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
Definition of Jampan
1. an Indian sedan chair [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jampan
Literary usage of Jampan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India by Vivian Dering Majendie (1859)
"This little village lies at the foot of the hills; and here again your mode of
conveyance is changed, and you enter a "jampan :" a barbarous machine, ..."
2. The Occult World by Alfred Percy Sinnett (1886)
"When the cushion was agreed to, my wife was told to put it under her rug, and
she did this with her own hands, inside her jampan. It may have been there ..."
3. The Bengal Law Reports of Decisions of the High Court at Fort William Civil by Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Bengal (India). Board of Revenue, Bengal (India). Supreme Council (1884)
"There is the evidence of a jampan bearer to th/) effect thab on three occasions
he, together with other bearers (it appears there would be four bearers of ..."
4. The Law Reports : Supplemental Indian Appeals: Being Cases in the Privy by Herbert Cowell (1880)
"bearers of the jampan), took Mrs Gordon to Lord William Hay's ... bearers and
the jampan remained outside, visible to all persons who might be passing, ..."
5. Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeals from India by David Sutherland (1880)
"There is the evidence of a jampan bearer to the effect that, on three occasions,
he, together with other bearers (it appears there would be four bearers of ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The larger ash and yew are much esteemed for jampan poles, hefts, ... It is valued
for jampan poles, ploughs, platters, spinning- wheels, etc., ..."
7. The Law Reports. Privy Council Appeals: Cases Heard and Determined by the by Herbert Cowell, Edmund F. Moore, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1873)
"There is the evidence of a jampan Bearer to the effect, that on three occasions
he, together with other Bearers (it appears there would be four Bearers of ..."
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