kago

[ kah-goh ]

/ ˈkɑ goʊ /

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noun, plural ka·gos.

(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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Origin of kago

1855–60; <Japanese: basket, cage

Words nearby kago

Kafka, Franz, kaftan, Kafue, Kagawa, Kagera, kago, Kagoshima, kagoul, kagu, Kahanamoku, kahawai

How to use kago in a sentence

Matsuo silently followed him out of the house and got into his kago.
Romances of Old Japan|Yei Theodora Ozaki
We were now to give up the kuruma and to travel by the kago, which, you will remember, I promised to describe.
An Artist's Letters From Japan|John La Farge
Howbeit it seemed that some light thing dropped from the kago, and fell with a little noise to the ground.
Japanese Fairy Tales|Grace James
Now upon a morning of the third month Konojo beheld men with kago come swinging through the bamboo grove.
Japanese Fairy Tales|Grace James

And he broke a blossoming bough from a tree that grew near by and laid it upon the roof of her kago.
Japanese Fairy Tales|Grace James