palkee garee
palkee garee is the alternative form of palkigari.
Meaning of palkigari
Noun
palkigari (plural palkigaris)
- 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 garee
| plural | palkee garees |
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- Palkee garee is the alternative form of palkigari.
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