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Definition of Houdahs
1. houdah [n] - See also: houdah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houdahs
Literary usage of Houdahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sporting Magazine (1833)
"We, so long as we keep in our houdahs, are beyond harm's reach ; but the same
... The line of elephants, with their houdahs and armed men upon their backs, ..."
2. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to by William Fordyce Mavor (1810)
"elephants, with their houdahs* r.nd coverings, drawn* out on each side, ...
houdahs are seats placed on the backs of elephants. ..."
3. Adventures of a Younger Son by Edward John Trelawny (1890)
"The sportsmen, and there are generally twenty of them, with twice that number of
elephants, encaged in the houdahs, each of them having half a dozen loaded ..."
4. Quarterly Review (1810)
"... they were both on wheels, somewhat resembling large elephant houdahs with
coverings, and drawn by those animals, and they went at a considerable rate, ..."
5. Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke, First Earl by Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling (1908)
"As the elephants ran among some trees, several houdahs were broken or knocked
off, and while we were inquiring into the hurts of our comrades, ..."
6. Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1874)
"... waving their trunks from side to side, were the elephants, with houdahs on
their backs, and mahouts snugly seated on the napes of their necks. ..."
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