serai
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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 Tracy, Louis
Taimur Khan's fort and serai are in the midst of all this, and are very poor and ruinous, but the walls are high, and they have a balakhana.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
"Avec ça," he exclaimed, fingering the box, "je serai content pour un an," and he insisted with charming grace, that we should each accept one then and there.
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.
When midday came he was tired and hungry, and returned to the serai for a meal.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
Why, friend Asadullah," he said; "did I not hear that in that little serai of yours there is much treasure—gotten, moreover, from others besides the Feringhis?
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
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 Kerr, Robert
Then pointing to the grave, he said: "When I lie there—Je serais sans souci!"
From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
These things are usually carried by travellers on camels, or in carts drawn by oxen; taking likewise tents along with them, to use when they do not find serais.
Massive archways, ruined forts and serais, placid water-tanks, lovely gardens, feathery toddy-palms, plantain-hedges, and throngs of picturesque people make the approach to historic Delhi a scene long to be remembered.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
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 Strang, Herbert
