gharry
Americannoun
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gharries
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gharry
First recorded in 1800–10, gharry is from the Hindi word gāṛī
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A whip cracked, the gharry started; in a moment it was on the road.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus
He thrust one foot out of the gharry, upon the step, and stood there a moment, the reflection from passing lamps upon his stained features.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
Tongas cut into her nerves, the stuffy gharry made her head ache, and the springless phaetons which abound in the East she avoided as the plague.
From Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
For an hour over a road beside which the Corniche is commonplace indeed, the gharry rolled on.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus
"There's no need to take a gharry," said Kerth.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
Then we got away in a bustle of hundreds of other carriages and gharries, all bound for Government House.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
The honoured guests would take the State gharries to their hotel?
From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie
Then in a dog-cart and three gharries to the bazaar; very quaint and picturesque.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
On reaching Aleppo, in the evening, the orderlies and servants were marched off by themselves, and after loading our kit on to carts we were driven away in gharries from the station.
From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop
After a time three gharries arrived, and Mr. Innes and I went in one, the two other gentlemen in another, and Sultan Abdullah's boys in the third.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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