18 March 2017
caravansary
[kar-uh-van-suh-ree]
noun, plural caravansaries.
1. (in the Near East) an inn, usually with a large courtyard, for the overnight accommodation of caravans.
2. any large inn or hotel.
Also, caravanserai [kar-uh-van-suh-rahy, -rey]
Origin of caravansary
French, Persian
1590-1600; < French caravanserai < Persian kārwānsarāy, equivalent to kārwān caravan + sarāy mansion, inn
Related forms
caravanserial [kar-uh-van-seer-ee-uh l] (Show IPA), adjective
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Examples from the Web for caravansary
Historical Examples
Serai, se-r′i, n. a khan, a caravansary : a seraglio for women.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Various
Then he sat in some caravansary, and guarded the candle flame.
Christ Legends
Selma Lagerlf
You must return to the caravansary that guards these treasures.
The Incredible Honeymoon
E. Nesbit
At the caravansary they had scented tragedy, and Kate faced them with the paragraph.
The Precipice
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
The caravansary into which Haschim and his following now turned off stood on a plot of rising ground surrounded by palm-trees.
The Bride of the Nile, Complete
Georg Ebers
They replied with a volley of musketry into the caravansary, and another into the pagoda.
With Clive in India
G. A. Henty
It was dusk when we arrived, and everybody hurried to get a dry place in the caravansary, myself amongst the pushing crowd.
Arminius Vambry, his life and adventures
Arminius Vambry
At the caravansary his squire came running out to hold his stirrup.
Rung Ho!
Talbot Mundy
At the caravansary there had been sharp disapproval of the whole thing.
The Precipice
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Then suddenly changing the subject, he said: “How is that caravansary of yours in the Cuatro Caminos getting on?”
Froth
Armando Palacio Valds
Word Origin and History for caravansary
n.
alternative spelling of caravanserai.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Anagram
canvas ray
Today’s quote
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
– Mahatma Gandhi
On this day
18 March 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to six years imprisonment by an Indian court for civil disobedience against the British Empire, which included boycotting British made goods. He ended up serving two years.
18 March 1965 – Russian cosmonaut, Lt Col Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, when he exits his spacecraft for a short ‘walk’, which included a somersault.