caravan

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Neither has it escaped my notice, nor failed to afford me matter of reflection, that, when a circus or a caravan is about to visit Jaalam, the initial step is to send forward large and highly ornamented bills of performance to be hung in the bar-room and the post-office.

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  1. noun A company of travelers journeying together, as across a desert or through hostile territory.
  2. noun A single file of vehicles or pack animals.
  3. noun A large covered vehicle; a van.
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  • —Sangara, one of Mr. Stanley's men, returned from Bagamoio, and reports that my caravan is at Ugogo. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • “Ever hear of a human wizard name of Zifnab?” CHAPTER 10 VARSPORT, THILLIA Paithan and his caravan were able to cross over on the ferry the following cycle. —  Death Gate Cycle 2 - Elven Star
  • Your caravan is a target of thieves, whether parked onsite, in a driveway or even in a lay-by or service station. —  PRWeb
  • Similarly, a caravan was allowed to flee U.S. troops from Afghanistan to Pakistan. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • In this caravan was a merchant who had a large sum of money in his purse. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
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  1. French caravane or Italian carovana, both from Persian kārvān.

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  1. = Dutch karavaan = German karawane = Danish karavane = Swedish karavan, from French caravane, from Spanish caravana = Portuguese caravana = Italian carovana (Middle Latin caravanna, caravenna, carvanna, carvanus = Middle Greek καρβάνιον, New Greek καρβάνι) = Turkish kārwān (kyārwān) = Arabic kairawān = Hind, kārwān, from Persian kārwān, kārawān, a caravan. Prob. orig. Persian, but by some considered orig. Arabic; cf. Persian kār, business, work, Arabic kair, trade, profession, kirā, kirwa, hire, hiring. In sense 3 shortened to van: see van.
 

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