kago

[ kah-goh ]

noun,plural ka·gos.
  1. (in Japan) a small basketwork palanquin strung from a pole each end of which rests on the shoulder of a bearer.

Origin of kago

1
1855–60; <Japanese: basket, cage

Words Nearby kago

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How to use kago in a sentence

  • Matsuo silently followed him out of the house and got into his kago.

    Romances of Old Japan | Yei Theodora Ozaki
  • We were now to give up the kuruma and to travel by the kago, which, you will remember, I promised to describe.

  • Howbeit it seemed that some light thing dropped from the kago, and fell with a little noise to the ground.

    Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace James
  • Now upon a morning of the third month Konojo beheld men with kago come swinging through the bamboo grove.

    Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace James
  • And he broke a blossoming bough from a tree that grew near by and laid it upon the roof of her kago.

    Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace James