jinriksha

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1. Synonym of rickshaw.

   Then a treat is in store for me! Three jinriksha are procured, and we ride off to the station. My, what a thrill!!!

   1930 January 4, Ruth Downing, “Our Sunday School Missionary in Japan”, in John van Schaick, Jr., editor, The Christian Leader, volume XXXIII, number 1, Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: Universalist Publishing House, →OCLC, page 27, column 1

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   There are no roads outside the villages in northern Yezo, no jinriksha,—those most fascinating man-power carriages,—no kago, or swinging cars, and no side-saddles...

   1898 July, Mabel Loomis Todd, "In Aino-land", The Century Illustrated Montly Magazine, Vol. LVI, No. 3, p. 346

   In the Transportation Buildin' is a map one hundred feet long, showing the transportation facilities of the Empire, a perfect network of railways and telegraphand telephone wires, showin' they have other ways of gettin' 'round there besides man-carts and jinrikshas, yes, indeed!

   1904, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, →ISBN

   Synonyms: rickshaw