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# palanquin

«palanquin» in Mova's school dictionary: **A covered seat or bed on poles, carried on the shoulders…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural palanquins)

### meaning for a pupil

A covered seat or bed on poles, carried on the shoulders of servants, used in old times to carry a rich lady or prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palanquin/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories a princess or lady is carried to the prince in a palanquin

### examples

- They were to dress her and bring her to him in the palanquin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palanquin/#x1)
- The prince took his finest palanquin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palanquin/#x2)
- The palanquin arrived with the gardener's daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palanquin/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.44/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «palanquin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palanquin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.