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* furniture.
The word, {car,} rendered "furniture," properly denotes "a
large round pannier," placed one on each side of a camel, for
a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like
a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair.
Moryson describes them as "two long chairs like cradles,
covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the
camel." Hanway calls them {kedgavays,} which "are a kind of
covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in
the manner of {panniers,} and are big enough for one person to
sit in." Thevenot, who calls then {counes,} says that they
lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and
sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on
each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished
a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a
camel, copied from Dalton's Prints of Egyptian Figures.
* searched. Heb. felt.
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