(Middle East, Central Asia, &, _, India, chiefly, _, historical) Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers.
1898, George Speirs Alexander Ranking translating 'Abd al-Qadir ibn-Muluk Shah al-Bada'uni as Muntakhabu-t-Tawārīkh, Vol. I, p. 457:
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(India, chiefly, _, historical) Various forms of covered human-borne litters and sedan chairs, chiefly for female passengers.
: Shir Khān... alleged as a pretext that he had a large number of families with him, and having placed two thousand armed Afghāns in closed litters⁷ sent them towards the fort. 7 The Mihaffa is, as its name implies, a litter so closed in…
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