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charpoy

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtʃɑːpɔɪ/Sorted achopryStarts with CEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A traditional bedstead used in South Asia, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.

Word origin

From Hindustani چار پائی (cār pāī) / चारपाई (cārpāī), from चार (cār, “four”) + पाई (pāī, “feet”), thus literally “quadruped” or “tetrapod”.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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