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/ˈtɑnˌdʒɑn/ · noun
(South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back..
The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.
The old tonjons were still to be seen in the basement at Barrackpore some years before my time, but when I enquired for them, they had disappeared.
Use tonjon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tonjon means (South Asia, chiefly historical) An open sedan chair raised on single poles front and back..
Common synonyms include jampan.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The equivalent for the men-folk, apart from those who rode on horse-back was the tonjon, which was a kind of open chair with poles extending at the back and front and carried by four coolies in the same way as the palki... The tonjon went out of use many year ago.
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