gharry
Americannoun
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gharries
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gharry
First recorded in 1800–10, gharry is from the Hindi word gāṛī
Example Sentences
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The great soldier having driven off in full uniform through a throng of salaaming menials of various nationalities, X. entered his humble gharry, and, followed by Usoof and Abu, drove to the Messagerie wharf.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser
"I can't ever thank you enough," she told him as they left the gharry and entered the hotel.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
Started fairly early this morning for the Pagoda, and sat outside it in a gharry pulled up opposite the entrance porch and steps.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
Sure enough, there came a rattle-trap hack gharry at the heels of a pair of galloping ponies.
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
On the following day, remembering what was expected of him, X. hired a gharry and proceeded to discharge all such obligations as etiquette demanded from one in his peculiar official position.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser
Let gharries be got together at once to take the infantry forty miles, then they will start fresh for a thirty-mile march.
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
We started in quaint little box-like carriages, called gharries, long before the fierce Malayan sun had risen above the palms, accomplishing the fourteen miles across the beautiful island in little over an hour.
From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman
Leaving them to look after the luggage,57 the Doctor and I got our two invalids into gharries, and drove at once to Malabar Point to stay with the Governor and Lady Reay.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
Elephants and camels and bullocks; palanquins, gharries, tongas; cloth of gold and cloth of jewels; color, confusion, maddening noises, and more color.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
"Anyhow it seems a huge, stirring sort of place," he added, as he watched motors, bicycles, and gharries whirring past the entrance.
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
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