A canopy, or seat fixed on the back of an elephant.
“Leading the array, three stately elephants marched, bearing the Woons in gilded howdahs under gold umbrellas.”—J. W. Palmer: Up and Down the Irrawaddi, chap. xx. p. 169.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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