palki gari

English

Noun

palki gari (plural palki garis)

  1. (India) Alternative form of palkigari.
    • 1891, John Lockwood Kipling, Beast and Man in India, page 214:
      Many of the palki gāris used as hack cabs in Calcutta and other large towns, owned by speculators who know nothing of their business, including liquor-sellers, table-servants, and even priestesses of Venus retired from business, are drawn by scarecrows that recall in a reduced and shadowy form the outlines of Bewick's grim woodcut,—"Waiting for death." But the mercy of death is denied to them.
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