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[Also pagode; now pagoda: see pa god a.] 1. A pagoda; hence, any Oriental temple. They [in Pegu] have many Idol-houses, which they call Pagods , all the tops whereof are covered with Leaf-gold. S. Clarke, Geog. Descrip. (1671), p. 33. IMG:content-2134.jpg:[blocks in formation] The presence seems, with things so richly odd, blo oms, naturalized from tropical America; that of the The mosque of Mahound, or some queer pagod . West Indies, Plumeria alba (see nosegay - tree). To shake Pope , Satires of Donne, iv. 239. the pagoda-tree, to make a fortune in India: an expres- 2. An image of a deity; an idol. The hilt [of a "creeze"] of Wood, Horn, the better sort of Gold, Silver, or Ivory, cut in the figure of a deformed Pagod . S. Clarke, Geog. Descrip. (1671), p. 36. See thronging millions to the pagod run, And offer country, parent, wife, or son! Pope, Epil. to Satires, i. 157.