Meaning of caravansary | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of caravanserai.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“A dervise travelling through Tartary, being arrived at the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by mistake⟳, as thinking it to be a public inn, or caravansary. […] It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate⟳, and, smiling at the mistake⟳ of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary? […] 'Ah, Sir,' said the dervise, a house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a palace, but a caravansary.'”

“But not in sumptuous Caravansary / The adventurer idles there, / Nor satiates wonder⟳ with her pomp and wealth; […]”

“Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write⟳ of that era of two-pronged forks, and when "saveall" was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.”

“Only in Paris, a cosmopolitan caravansary in itself, did Americans and other foreigners fall⟳ nicely into the picture and spoil⟳ nothing in the charm of the place⟳.”

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