takhterawan

plural takhterawans

1. alternativeAlternative form of takhtrawan.

   She rides only in a kajava, or basket, or in a closed takhterawan, or horse litter, or, as she sits perched high up, astride a man's saddle, looking in her balloon garments, and doubtless feeling, more insecure than Humpty Dumpty on the wall.

   1907, Annie van Sommer et al., Our Moslem Sisters..., page 210

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   I find an exceedingly pleasant man here, an Abab'deh, a very great Sheykh from beyond Khartoum, a man of fifty I suppose, with manners like an English nobleman, simple and polite and very intelligent. He wants to take me to Khartoum for two months up and back, having a tent and a takhterawan (camel-litter) and to show me the Bishareen in the desert.

   1865 January 9, Lucie Duff Gordon, Letter to Mrs. Austin from Luxor, Egypt

   My mind was very active, picturing that comfortable room where we should rest, the refreshing water, the quiet rest, the soft bed for the dear invalid, the quick cup of tea, his sweet words, our subsequent journey home in the takhterawan, our safe arrival there.

   1872, Rufus Anderson, chapter XXXVI, in History of the Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Oriental Churches, volume II