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/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
- There is a lot of sense for eight or nine of the major heads of state getting together privately to discuss issues in an informal way without this huge caravanserai of pressmen and aides and assistants.
- He can gallop on the wild horses of wave and wind, outspanning his team in the caravanserai of night. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
- 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.
- Sheki is also known for its huge caravanserais of which it once had five, a time when local silk was a valued commodity on Caucasian trade routes.
- The caravanserai is a big, commodious affair, a quadrangular structure of brick surrounding fully an acre of ground, and with a small open space outside. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
- The caravanserais, souks, hammams and charitable institutions which share the same architectural language throughout the Muslim world are not compared or discussed.
- At the caravanserai is a traveller who says he hails from the Pishin Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
- a caravanserai is a picture of the world; men come in and go out of it, and no account is taken of them. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
- What a scene it must have been for the immense army of journalists, lobbyists and poules de luxe who follow the Euro parliament's caravanserai from Brussels to Strasbourg.
- The third part, beyond the southern gateway to the Jilaukhana, was to be the Taj Ganj—a mammoth square complex that housed bazaars and four caravanserais, the incomes from which would fund the care and upkeep of the tomb and the forecourt. Shadow Princess