jampans

Noun

jampan (plural jampans)

1. (India, historical) Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.
   • At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.1887, John Cookson Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar..., page 139

   Synonyms:

   dandy or tonjon

2. (Malaysia, historical) Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
   • ... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.1886, Henry Yule & al., Hobson-Jobson..., s.v. "Jompon"

   Synonyms:

   mihaffa