caravansary

And though all three cities have centuries-old caravansaries — the famed inns where Silk Road merchants stayed — Ichan-Kala, a remnant of the ancient Khiva oasis, checkered with medieval Islamic buildings, appears completely untouched by time.

He was married now and partook zealously in the Manhattan social caravansary.

The town of hundreds of madrassas and caravansaries, and 100 or so mosques, had been subjected to the only fate worse than Genghis Khan’s, that fifth horseman of the apocalypse: tourism.

If this were the Sahara, caravansaries would have stopped by its green pools for thousands of years.

This muscular president thought he had found his perfect foil: a veritable caravansary of the unclean, unsavory and un-American folks known as migrants.