E. Ind. Also jampaun, jompon, janpan, etc. [Bengālī jhāmpān, Hindī jhappān.] A kind of sedan chair, carried by four men, used in the hill-country of India.
1832. Mundy, Pen & Pencil Sk., I. 284. We therefore persuaded him to take the jampaun and return.
1836. Bp. Wilson, Diary, in Life (1860), II. xv. 108. We ordered our ponies and johnpons.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 248. The usual mode of travelling is by ‘jampauns’—a conveyance not unlike a large clumsy chair, having a top from which curtains are suspended. They are carried by four men by means of poles fixed to the sides.
1872. Mrs. Valentine, in Mem., iii. (1882), 37. We have a sort of chair called a ‘Jhampan,’ carried by four men.
1886. Yule & Burnell, Anglo-Ind. Gloss., Jompon.
1887. J. C. Fife-Cookson, Tiger-Shooting, 139. At a hill-station ladies are carried in jampans, which are open doolies.
Hence ǁ Jampanee [Hindī jānpānī], a bearer of a jampan.
1859. J. Lang, Wand. India, 11. Ladies and gentlemen on horseback, and ladies in janpans—the janpanees dressed in every variety of livery.
1879. Times, 15 Aug., 3/3 (Y.). Every lady on the hills keeps her jampan and jampanees … just as in the plains she keeps her carriage and footmen.
