Meaning of jampan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of dandy or tonjon, a kind of open sedan chair, particularly one with its main pole suspended from smaller poles borne on the shoulders of two pairs of porters.
   India, historical
2. Synonym of mihaffa, a kind of enclosed litter, principally for women.
   Malaysia, historical

Examples

“At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.”

“... we find in Crawfurd's Malay Dict. "Jampana... a kind of litter"... It may have been originally in India, as it is now in the Straits, a closed litter for ladies of rank, and the word may have become appropriated to the open conveyance in which European ladies are carried.”

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