palanchine

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A form of palanquin — An enclosed human-borne litter or sedan chair, a large box with a chair, couch, or bed raised on horizontal poles and used as a mode of transport.

OriginItalian palanchino →
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Meanings

nounpalanchine (plural palanchines)

plural palanchines

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of palanquin.
    1 more example

    At the end of two moneths I determined to go for Goa in the companye of two other Portingale Merchants, which were making readye to depart, with two Palanchines or little Litters, which are very commodious for the waye, with eight Falchines which are men hired, to carrie the palanchines, eight for a palanchine, foure at a time...

    1588, Thomas Hickok translating Cesare Federici as The Voyage and Trauaile of M. Caesar Frederick, Merchant of Venice into the East India, the Indies, and beyond the Indies..., p. 10

Origin

  1. Italianpalanchino
  2. Englishpalanchine

From Italian palanchino, q.v.

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APA

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Chicago

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