Howdah

Quick meaning: Howdah is a noun meaning A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.

Meaning

A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.

More Meanings

1. An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant.

Example Sentences

They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.

I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.

I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.

Word Forms

• howdahs
• howda
• howder

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include musnud, dahabiah, dahabiya, mahmil, khedda, dahabiyah.

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