Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Turkestan, a place inhabited during the winter; winter quarters; also, any settlement or village.
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Examples
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The Khanum told me that Ask was only their yeïlak, or summer residence, and that Amol, near the Caspian, was their kishlak, or winter abode.
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He was to inquire what description of infidels they were, whether they lived in an island all the year round, without possessing any _kishlak_ (warm region) to migrate to in the summer, and whether most of them did not inhabit ships and eat fish; and if they did live there, how it happened that they had obtained possession of India; and he was to clear up that question so long agitated in Persia, how England and London were connected, whether
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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