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Webster 1913 Edition
Pagoda
Pa-go′da
,Noun.
[Pg.
pagoda
, pagode
, fr. Hind. & Per. but-kadah
a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but
an idol + kadah
a house, a temple.] 1.
A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, – usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
2.
An idol.
[R.]
Brande & C.
3.
[Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf. Skr.
bhagavat
holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees.