Andor

Quick meaning: Andor is a noun meaning (India, historical) Synonym of dandy or hammock litter, a strong cloth suspended from a pole or set of poles used as an open sedan chair.

Meaning

(India, historical) Synonym of dandy or hammock litter, a strong cloth suspended from a pole or set of poles used as an open sedan chair.

More Meanings

1. (India, archaic) Synonym of palanquin, used variously for nearly any kind of Indian litter.
2. (Portugal, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of litter, used in religious processions of saints' figurines.

Example Sentences

1552. — "The Moors all were on foot, and their Captain was a valiant Turk, who as being their Captain, for the honour of the thing was carried in an Andor [i.e. a takhtrawan] on the shoulders of 4 men, from which he gave his orders as if he were on horseback." — Barros, II. vi. viii.

P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_..."

Word Forms

• andors
• andas
• andola

Synonyms for andor

Depending on context, synonyms include palanquin, litter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commissioner, palki, jampan, palanquin, dandi, mahmal.

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