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howdah Noun a seat for riding on an elephant's back [Hindi haudah]
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It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower. He looked down from his howdah and saw that the elephant had stepped across the body of a snake which was dragging itself through the jungle. The emperor rode in a golden howdah upon the back of a huge elephant so covered with rich hangings and embellished with scintillating gems that scarce more than the beast's eyes and feet were visible. |
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