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Noun(1) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers

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(1) He was carried through the streets by a team of bearers on a palanquin , which still survives at Powis Castle in Wales.(2) The Emperor was carried on his opulent palanquin across the centre bridge along the north-south axis on his journey through his city.(3) u2018In earlier days, people sprayed water as the sweltering heat and the sandy path caused great inconvenience to the palanquin bearers,u2019 the priest says.(4) Loulou's father, so he told me, had been a palanquin bearer.(5) There it was, a palanquin being carried by four men, all powerfully built and in immaculate robes of ivory colour.(6) In his songs, he has pointed towards a dream when he shall be carried in a palanquin .(7) That way, there's still plenty of room in the palanquin .(8) Aged devotees who were unable to endure the strain of the hike were carried on a simple palanquin made of cane that could be purchased for US $17 in Pamba.(9) We passed the odd pony trap and the four men with their palanquin .(10) Tegh Bahadur was carried by Mother Nanaki in a palanquin .(11) Each time we moved from one district to another, there would be an argument over whose turn it was to carry the palanquin .(12) A palanquin , breast plates, guns, cannon balls, daggers, swords, head gear and knives were on display along with old and new age stone tools.(13) The temple dates from 1856 and every year the statue is carried by a palanquin around the neighborhood and other deities are brought to him.(14) In a palanquin borne by four servants sit a rich man's three daughters, the youngest dressed in her bridal sari, her little hands painted with red lac dye, her hair oiled and set.(15) Chinese prefer a traditional u2018three boxu2019 sedan shape for cars, not unlike the shape of the shoulder-carried palanquins in which the nobility travelled in previous centuries, Shyr said.(16) Outside there would be gorgeously caparisoned elephants and horses with rich housings, palanquins and teams of palanquin bearers, four in hand coaches, and subsequently Rolls Royces and Daimlers.
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