punkey

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Tailor-shops, laundries, restaurants, and barber-shops, where swinging punkas waft the odor of bay rum through open doors, suggest a scene from some forgotten story-book or the stage-setting for an Elizabethan play.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

To render this state of things bearable, the inhabitants use, besides the punkas in the rooms, wicker-work made of bamboo. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

Clouds of grayish smoke, fanned into fantastic shapes by electric punkas, floated on dead atmosphere, personifying the languor that had suddenly quartered in Trent.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

Within twenty days of the coming of these welcome little birds it is possible to dispense with punkas.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

While we sat at our meals, in the spacious dining-hall, long lines of punkas, or suspended fans, were worked by pulleys running outside, so that during these hours we were comfortable, notwithstanding the heat.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray