palkee

English

Noun

palkee (plural palkees)

1. Archaic form of palki (“an Indian litter, a palanquin”).
   • 1859, John Williamson Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi:

     These palkees, which, to an inexperienced person, offer, even when empty, a hopeless weight, are conveyed by them, with a heavy passenger within, at the rate of twenty or thirty miles a day

   • 1897, Anna Harriette Leonowens, Life and Travel in India..., page 211:

     At three o'clock the next morning we began the ascent of the Ghauts in palanquins, or, as they are commonly called, palkees, with coolies to transport our baggage and provisions.

References

• “palkee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.