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‖ canaut Anglo-Indian.|kəˈnɔːt|
Also 7 canat, kanate, 9 kanaut, connaut.
[Urdū from Arab. qanāt (Yule).]
‘The side-wall of a tent; a canvas enclosure’ (Yule).
1625Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1481 The Kings Tent..incircled with Canats (made of red Calico stiffened with Canes at euery breadth, standing vpright about nine foot high). 1793Dirom Camp. India 230 (Y.) The canaut of canvas..was painted of a beautiful sea-green colour. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. 201 (Y.) Silk of which they make tents and kanauts. 1834T. Medwin Angler Wales I. ix. 163, I have known tents, though the ‘canauts’ (walls) and ‘fly’ (roof) consisted of four or five cloths, completely honeycombed in a very few weeks [by white ants]. |