Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitarahs
Literary usage of Pitarahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal (1832)
"I should think very light portmanteaus or pitarahs might be made, by applying
over a bamboo frame-work this varnish, and the thuya, which would fill up all ..."
2. Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1886)
"... and you may take an inventory of his load without opening the pitarahs; one
of them is always devoted to a ..."
3. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"1849,—"The attention of the staff was called to the necessity of putting their
pitarahs and property in the Bungalow, as thieves abounded. ..."
4. The Northern magazine (1853)
"... two for the bedding, three for three pitarahs, one to carry the canteen (a
small square box), aud two extra men for the guns. ..."
5. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal (1832)
"I should think very light portmanteaus or pitarahs might be made, by applying
over a bamboo frame-work this varnish, and the thuya, which would fill up all ..."
6. Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes by Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1886)
"... and you may take an inventory of his load without opening the pitarahs; one
of them is always devoted to a ..."
7. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"1849,—"The attention of the staff was called to the necessity of putting their
pitarahs and property in the Bungalow, as thieves abounded. ..."
8. The Northern magazine (1853)
"... two for the bedding, three for three pitarahs, one to carry the canteen (a
small square box), aud two extra men for the guns. ..."
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