howdah
- n a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant
- Moral: A bombeven the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912is a poor weapon.
- On the day of the wedding itself, Prince Birendra mounted a silver howdah atop an elephant at the Royal Palace, then led a two-mile procession through the capital.
- Gargantua out-ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared elephantastically in a howdahfor the first time in .