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