caravansary
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This caravansary in Iran was built in the twelfth century and served as a fortified place for travelers to rest.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He was married now and partook zealously in the Manhattan social caravansary.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
With the vast and sparsely populated landscapes of “The Revenant,” I wanted Alejandro González Iñárritu’s balletic cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to swivel the camera around to show the teeming crew and the high-tech caravansary behind them.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2015
The beach and adjacent campground looked like a hybrid of refugee camp and a tailgate party, with a winding caravansary of tarp canopies, trailers, smoking grills, windmills, kites and ancient conversion vans.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In addition to providing shelter, caravansaries were a place for merchants to meet other traders to exchange goods as well as share and spread Islamic ideas and traditions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Wealthy individuals might also build caravansaries, providing shelter for travelers as an act of piety.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
If this were the Sahara, caravansaries would have stopped by its green pools for thousands of years.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
All the caravansaries at the entrance of the town were crowded, and there was no other alternative except to pass through the whole town to the other side.
From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida
