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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.

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