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serai

[suh-rah-ee, suh-rahy] / səˈrɑ i, səˈraɪ /
NOUN
caravansary
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This serai he resolved to attack with his infantry, the guns covering the flanks, and the 9th Lancers and Guides to support the line.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

It's a bugle-horn, and the motto is J'y serai.

From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

Evidently, too, a stout serai, or inn, a square building surrounding a quadrangle set apart for the lodgment of camels and merchandise was regarded as a stronghold.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy

Then he returned to his own serai for his midday meal and a sleep; he foresaw that he might have little opportunity for rest during the night.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

Palace and mosque and garden and serai, Bazaars and baths and spacious pleasure grounds, By favor of Allah to perfection sprang.

From Later Poems by Bliss Carman

There, serais Fort Warren, where we kept our rebel prisoners during the war.

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler

He had asked for the Afghan serais merely to avoid them; his imposture might be discovered if he came among genuine merchants.

From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

"Je serais chez moi," was now her argument, and for food she could continue to work or beg.

From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Beyond the walls, the suburbs formerly extended four coss to the north, but are now all in ruins, except a few tombs, mosques, and goodly serais, in which no persons now dwell.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

The tall, slender lady rode nearer to the gate and looked haughtily in, while the little girl-rider cried out: "Tu y serais!"

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai




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