An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant
Lord and Lady Lytton rode in a silven houdah .
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() Hindi (hauda), from Arabic هودج hawdaj, ‘litter carried by a camel’. (1774)