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UK
/kˈæɹɐvˌænsəɹˌaɪ/
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NOUN
- an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans
How To Use caravanserai In A Sentence
- Once the media caravanserai moves on to the next global flashpoint, we will likely ignore the messy aftermath to the heroic events of last week.
- Crest Hotel Formerly known as the Esso, this bright modern caravanserai has all the comforts and expected facilities.
- Someone wrote more acutely that The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner does for a great museum what Arnold Bennett - ‘a no less notable connoisseur of luxury’ - did for the international caravanserai in his Grand Babylon Hotel.
- ‘Like Genghis Khan come to Chinatown,’ is how a friend once described this former Silk Route caravanserai on market day.
- They sailed up the river with a fair wind for ten days till they drew in sight of Baghdad, at which they all rejoiced, and the ship landed them in the city, where without stay or delay Hasan hired a storehouse in one of the caravanserais and transported his goods thither. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Here we were to stay the night at a kind of caravanserai, set apart for emigrants. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
- Said to be one of the oldest preserved caravanserais in the world, maybe a thousand years, it wears its age and restoration with solidity rather than elegance.
- Callil said, `I saw you being led away by the Mulla at the caravanserai, under religious instruction, it seemed. KARA KUSH
- But Speedy swore by them, and to my gratification their havildar was a leathery veteran from the Mogala country who claimed to remember “Bloody Lance ", as he addressed me, pouring out the old tale of how Ifflass-mann slaughtered the four Gilzais — so much lying tommy-rot, you understand, but I dare say I could still dine out on it in the caravanserais along the Jugdulluk road. Flashman on the March
- I am inspired this week to praise the "caravanserai" because it is where we all met in the age before steamships and aircraft. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed