1838, Montgomery Martin,The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India..., volume III, page119:
This is a very miserable conveyance, used by the middling rank of native men; but has been improved, by Europeans, into theDoli for conveying the sick, by lengthening it so as to admit the passenger to lie at length.
1911,Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in coveredpalanquins,dolis andmuhafas or completely veiled coaches andvictorias are now obliged to go about intongas,rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “doli”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies