caravanserai
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
caravanserai (plural caravanserais)
- A roadside inn having a central courtyard where caravans can rest.
- 1859, Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald, XVI,
- Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai / Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, / How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp / Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXIV,
- When we got to Cromley, it was too early to go to the spike, and we walked several miles farther, to a plantation beside a meadow, where one could sit down. It was a regular caravanserai of tramps—one could tell it by the worn grass and the sodden newspaper and rusty cans that they had left behind.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 48:
- Eight days later, after leaving the desert and riding through neatly tended villages and snow-capped mountain scenery, he arrived there, hiring himself a room in a caravanserai near the bazaar.
- 1859, Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald, XVI,
- (jocular) An upscale hotel.
- 1838, Anonymous, A Guide to the Lakes of Killarney and the South of Ireland, London: J. Onwhyn, p. 56,
- By the bye it is as well to mention, for the benefit of the inexperienced, that there are no Inns in Ireland; all are hotels, from the lowest road cabin to the splendid caravanserai, with all its appurtenances of luxury and ease.
- 1940, Sinclair Lewis, Bethel Merriday, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter XXVII, p. 281,
- Six anxious inquiries of marble-fronted-hotel clerks about rates; and twice when she angrily made it plain she couldn't afford it, and quit the caravanserai where Andy and Mahala and Mrs. Boyle were to loll in kitchenette-bedizened splendour and hunted up a smaller hotel that looked like a private house with obesity.
- 1838, Anonymous, A Guide to the Lakes of Killarney and the South of Ireland, London: J. Onwhyn, p. 56,
- A home or shelter for caravans.
- French: caravansérail
- German: Karawanserei
- Italian: caravanserraglio
- Portuguese: caravançarai, caravançará, caravancerá
- Russian: караван-сара́й
- Spanish: caravasar, caravansaray
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