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palkee-garry

palkee-garry is the alternative form of palkigari.

Meaning of palkigari

Noun

palkigari (plural palkigaris)

  1. (India) 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.
    • Once, during the last campaign we were in a great strait, to get up to Lahore from Allahabad, and, on applying one afternoon at the Post Office for a horsed palkee-garee we were informed, "that Major A. had engaged it with Captain B."—"Then, early to-morrow morning, could we have it?"—"No, it would...1850 March, “Journeys in India”, in The Benares Magazine, volume III, number III, page 231
    Synonyms:
    palkee carriage, gharry

Forms of palkee-garry

pluralpalkee-garries

Questions about palkee-garry

What is palkee-garry the alternative form of?
Palkee-garry is the alternative form of palkigari.

Words near palkee-garry in the dictionary

  1. palkee garee
  2. palkee garees
  3. palkee-garee
  4. palkee-garees
  5. palkee-garries
  6. palkee-garry
  7. palkees
  8. palki
  9. palki gari
  10. palki garis
  11. palkigari

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