Crossword-Solution: PUNKAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Awnings cover the windows outside, and there are posted up directions for the use of the cooling apparatus applied to each first-class compartment; the frames for punkas are seen in the railway waiting-rooms, and we notice in the army regulations that during the hot season soldiers are required to stay in-doors between the hours of eleven and three.

Immense mirrors reflected the brilliancy of a thousand lights; the floor was covered with the richest of carpets, the luxurious divans and sofas were overspread with the cloths of Cashmere; the elaborate richness of the costumes of the Oriental guests, and the army of servants manipulating _punkas_, or fans, formed a scene not unlike, while it out-rivalled, the grand _dénoûment_ of a fairy spectacle on the stage.

Within twenty days of the coming of these welcome little birds it is possible to dispense with punkas.

The next day, Sunday, they went to church in sedan-chairs, and sat under the punkas or swinging-fans, which cooled the air.

Tailor-shops, laundries, restaurants, and barber-shops, where swinging punkas waft the odor of bay rum through open doors, suggest a scene from some forgotten story-book or the stage-setting for an Elizabethan play.