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  • noun Plural form of caravansarai.

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Examples

  • The day was already far spent when at last Abd Allah led his animal into one of the caravansarais outside the gate of Mazagan, so, after saying his evening prayers and eating his evening meal, he lay down to rest on a heap of straw in one of the little rooms of the fandak, undisturbed either by anxious dreams, or by the multitude of lively creatures about him.

    Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

  • Public caravansarais were built for travellers in every district, and we have what would almost be legal evidence of the grant of vast tracts of land for the supply of provisions for these houses of hospitality.

    Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

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