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Definition of Rickshas
1. ricksha [n] - See also: ricksha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rickshas
Literary usage of Rickshas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... Cosmopolitan Population—Fill the Offices and Become Thoroughly
English—Gorgeous 'rickshas—Paid in Rice —Opium Trade Flourishes—Secret
Societies—Penang. ..."
2. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1891)
"If it was our halting-place for the night, as soon as we got out of our rickshas
we took off our boots and were shown to our rooms. This taking-off of boots ..."
3. Peking: A Social Survey Conducted Under the Auspices of the Princeton by Sidney David Gamble, John Stewart Burgess (1921)
"4 live a man who pulls rickshas, his untidy wife who is never seen ... The next
gate on the same side is the entrance to the yard where the rickshas live in ..."
4. Peking: A Social Survey Conducted Under the Auspices of the Princeton by Sidney David Gamble, John Stewart Burgess (1921)
"4 live a man who pulls rickshas, his untidy wife who is never seen without a
cigarette, and their boy of three. By giving a separate paragraph to each ..."
5. Manchu and Muscovite by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1904)
"... and rickshas, coolies and carts, soldiers and sailors, and finally with the
much- despised and variegated civilian of the north. ..."
6. Manchu and Muscovite by Bertram Lenox Simpson (1904)
"... and rickshas, coolies and carts, soldiers and sailors, and finally with the
much- despised and variegated civilian of the north. ..."
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