palkee-garry

A form of palkigari — A carriage or cart considered similar-looking to a palanquin, particularly (historical) those instituted for regular service between major towns in British India in the 1840s.

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nounpalkee-garry (plural palkee-garries)

plural palkee-garries

  1. IndiaalternativearchaicAlternative form of palkigari.

    I pick up my friend Nicholas—who is station-staff at Mangrowlee, and acting-adjutant to the regiment besides—and whisk him off in my palkee-garry, drawn by two Burmah ponies, to Thorney's hospitable mansion, overhanging the river.

    1856 February, "Thorney's Tiffin-Party", The Panorama of Life and Literature, Vol. II, No. 8, p. 188
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