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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kago1

1855–60; < Japanese: basket, cage

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Example Sentences

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

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.

Now upon a morning of the third month Konojo beheld men with kago come swinging through the bamboo grove.

And he broke a blossoming bough from a tree that grew near by and laid it upon the roof of her kago.

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