chaupala

See also: Chaupala

English

Noun

chaupala (plural chaupalas)

  1. Alternative form of chowpaul.
    • 1838, Robert Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, volume III, page 119:
      The third kind [of palanquin] is called Chaupala, that is four square, and is a kind of square box open at the sides.
    • 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
      ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.
    • 1995 March, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 46:
      ... there were others of a more ordinary type like the chaupala, muhafah, miyanah; some were simple hammocks suspended from a pole, called doli...
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