PAGOD • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Pagod

... three houses where I go quite at my ease, am never asked to touch a card, nor hold dissertations. Nay, I don't pay homage to their authors. Every woman has one or two planted in her house, and God knows how they water them. The old President HainaUlt(886) is the pagod at Madame du Deffand's, an old blind debauch'ee of wit, where I supped last night. The President is very near deaf, and much nearer superannuated. He sits by the table: the mistress of the house, who formerly was his, inquires after every ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... he followed athwart the flood To Potomac's Northern shore, When midway wading, his host of braves "My Maryland!" loud did roar— To red Antietam's field of graves, Through mountain-passes, woods and waves, They followed their pagod with hymns and glaives, For Stonewall followed ...

— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville