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  • n  a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room

  • By 1846 they had opened the Hong Kong Club as a punkah-cooled refuge from local reality, and the development of residences on the Peak allowed them to extend segregation to the .
  • Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple.
  • From the punkah-hung summer bungalows of Darjeeling to the marble "cottages" of 19th century Newport (where a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once a .

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