palanquin
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"In India, it's said that the bride enters the husband's home carried on a palanquin and that she leaves only after her death, carried out on a funeral bier," Rao told the BBC.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
The slim figure was carried by four bearers on a palanquin, while the company’s actors animated its arms and billowing skirts from the sides.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
He seems to have no desire for the trappings of luxury, eschewing the apparently traditional palanquin for his trips about town and showing little interest in the lavish feasts put in front of him.
From The Verge • Jan. 13, 2022
Cersei’s is a gilded palanquin carried by servants; Tyrion’s is a crate with scuzzy air holes.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2015
In this city of splendors, Dany had expected the House of the Undying Ones to be the most splendid of all, but she emerged from her palanquin to behold a grey and ancient ruin.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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