howdah

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The chopper, he said, was responsible for "the one-star generals who regard their tour of duty in Vietnam as an opportunity to indulge in a year's big-game hunting from their helicopter howdahs at government expense."

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The elephants of participating native princes, groomed carefully for months in advance, at length had their faces painted, their tusks gilded, their backs saddled with howdahs encrusted with gold and gems.

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Behind him followed 30 tanks, like dutiful elephants, in their armored howdahs goggled tankers with ungainly helmets, respirators hung from their elbows.

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Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs.

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Wrapped up in a railroad-rug, she was now reclining in one of the howdahs.

From Round the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules