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punkah
[ puhng-kuh ]
noun
- (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
adjective
- of, pertaining to, used on, or working a punkah:
punkah ropes.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of punkah1
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Example Sentences
During meal-times, a large punkah is employed to diffuse an agreeable degree of coolness through the apartment.
Even the private soldier Page 410in Singapore has a punkah pulled over his bed at night.
The carpenter has rigged up a punkah, and the men have improvised some double awnings.
In spite of the exertions of the punkah coolie, the billiard-room of the Occidental Hotel was like the furnace-doors of Sheol.
Inside, the droning whine of the punkah mocks him throughout the weary day, as it scarcely stirs the heated air.
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