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▪ I. ‖ shikara|ʃiˈkaːraː|
Also shikarah, shikari.
[Hind.]
A long, swift boat used in Kashmir. Also attrib.
1875F. Drew Jummoo & Kashmir Territories viii. 181 A shikāri is the sort of boat that is in daily use with the English visitors; a light boat, manned..by six men, it goes at a fast pace. 1893E. F. Knight Where Three Empires Meet iii. 35 Leaving our slow doongahs to follow us, we hailed some of the gondolas of Srinagur; long, swift canoes known as shikarahs, in which we reclined luxuriously on soft cushions. 1933Discovery Nov. 348/2 A shikara or river taxi. 1964V. S. Naipaul Area of Darkness iv. 103 Their shikara boats were a cluster of red and orange awnings and cushions; and in shikaras we were ferried over to the houseboats. 1981S. Rushdie Midnight's Children i. 14 The thaw had come rapidly... Many of the small boats, the shikaras, had been caught napping. Ibid. 16 He floated past the shikara moorings.
▪ II. shikara
var. shikhara. |