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1. IndiahistoricalSynonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.

   At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.

   1887, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar..., page 139

   Synonyms: dandy or tonjon

2. MalaysiahistoricalSynonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.

   ... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.

   1886, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "Jompon"

   Synonyms: mihaffa