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1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
(now rare, usually in form pagod) An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol.
(historical) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J. Talboys Wheeler, compiler, “Governorship of Mr. Nathaniel Higginson. 1692–1698.”, in Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham. 1639–1702., Madras: J. Higginbotham,, by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262:
he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 240:
I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas.
An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
pagoda in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN