tact-ravanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tact-ravan (plural tact-ravans)

1. Obsolete form of takhtrawan.
   • 1891, Archibald Constable & al. translating François Bernier as Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656–1668, p. 214:

     Whenever the King takes an excursion in his Paleky, on an elephant, or in a Tact-Ravan (or travelling throne, carried upon the shoulders of eight men, who are cleverly relieved from time to time when on the march by eight others), all the Omrahs who are not prevented by illness, disabled by age, or exempted by a peculiar office, are bound to accompany him on horseback...