‖ tonjon E. Ind.
(ˈtɒndʒɒn)
Also tomjohn.
[Origin uncertain.]
A kind of sedan chair slung on a pole and carried by four bearers.
| c 1804 Mrs. Sherwood Autobiog. xvi. (1854) 300, I had a tonjon, or open palanquin, in which I rode. 1838 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 132 After dinner he took us out to see the town: we in our palanquins, and he in his tonjon. [Note. A kind of open sedan-chair.] 1885 G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 132 It was not practicable to take a horse,..and I began the journey in a tonjon. |