tonjon

plural tonjons · alternative tomjohn · alternative tamjan

1. South AsiahistoricalAn open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back.First known use 1804

   The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.

   1925, George Nathaniel Curzon, British Government in India, volume II, page 21

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   The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.

   1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, p. 139

   Synonyms: jampan