caravansary

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

It is most useful to imagine it as a network of “legs” on a journey, along which merchants and traders traveled via caravan with their wares, pausing to rest at caravansaries along the way.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Why might governments in states along trading routes have sponsored caravansaries?

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

Both men felt the call of the road; both loved the changing landscape and the little adventures of the caravansaries; both loved most of all the men and women they met.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt