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PAGODA (See also:Port. pagode, a word introduced in the 16th See also:century by the See also:early Portuguese adventurers in See also:India, reproducing phonetically some native word, possibly Pers. but-kadah, a See also:house for an idol, or some See also:form of Sansk. bhagavat, divine, See also:holy)  , an Eastern See also:term for a See also:temple, especially a See also:building of a See also:pyramid shape See also:common in See also:India and the Far See also:East and devoted to sacred purposes; in Buddhist countries, notably See also:China, the name of a many-sided See also:tower in which are kept See also:holy See also:relics . More loosely " See also:pagoda " is used in the East to signify any non-See also:Christian or non-Mussulman See also:place of See also:worship . Pagoda or pagod was also the name given to a See also:gold (occasionally also See also:silver) See also:coin, of about the value of seven shillings, at one See also:time current in See also:southern India . From this meaning is derived the expression " the pagoda See also:tree," as synonymous with the " See also:wealth of the Indies," whence the phrase to " shake the pagoda tree." There is a real tree, the Plumieria acuminata, bearing the name . It grows in India, and is of a small and graceful shape, and bears yellow and See also:white See also:flowers tinged with red .

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