kago
[ kah-goh ]
noun,plural ka·gos.
(in Japan) a small basketwork palanquin strung from a pole each end of which rests on the shoulder of a bearer.
Origin of kago
11855–60; <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 OzakiWe were now to give up the kuruma and to travel by the kago, which, you will remember, I promised to describe.
An Artist's Letters From Japan | John La FargeHowbeit it seemed that some light thing dropped from the kago, and fell with a little noise to the ground.
Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace JamesNow upon a morning of the third month Konojo beheld men with kago come swinging through the bamboo grove.
Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace JamesAnd 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
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