Anglo-Ind. Also charpai. [a. Urdū chārpāī, f. Pers. chahār-pāī four-footed.] The common light Indian bedstead.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 97. A camp-table, a camp-stool or folding-chair, a charpoy or bedstead.
1859. J. Lang, Wand. India, 138. He attempted to rise from the charpai.
1885. Macm. Mag., Nov., 80/2. The native bed, or charpoy, a web of netting stretched on four short legs.
