charpoy
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi-(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu चारपाई (cārpāī) / چارپای (cārpāī), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian چهارپای (“four-footed”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
charpoy (plural charpoys)
- (India) A traditional bedstead in India, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘To be Filed for Reference’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2004, p. 213:
- Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 13, in Burmese Days[1]:
- Flory crossed the brick-like earth of the yard between the hospital sheds. All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.
- 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 54:
- There, every morning, tens of thousands of young men sit in the tea shops, reading the newspaper, or lie on a charpoy humming a tune, or sit in their rooms talking to a photo of a film actress.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘To be Filed for Reference’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2004, p. 213: