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caravanserai, -era, -ary|kærəˈvænsəraɪ, -ərə, -ərɪ|
Forms: (6 cauarzara), 7 carauansara, car(r)avans-raw, karavan serai, quervanseray, 8 caravanserie, 8–9 caravansera, -sary, 9 caravansery, (caravensary), 8– caravanserai.
[ult. a Per. kārwān-sarāī, f. kārwān caravan + sarāī, or sarā palace, mansion, inn. In F. caravanséraï, Pg. caravançara. The endings -ary, -ery, are due to popular analogy.]
A kind of inn in Eastern countries where caravans put up, being a large quadrangular building with a spacious court in the middle.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 196 We lay in one of the great Cauarzaras [? caruanzaras], that were built by Mahomet Bassha with so many goodly commodities. 1615tr. De Monfart's Surv. E. Ind. 8 The Sophie hath caused to bee erected certaine..huge lodgings..called Carauan-sara or Surroyes, for the benefit of Carauans. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 51 Where is a Carravans-raw. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 192 Publick Buildings they call Karavan Serais, or Kans. 1687tr. De Thevenot's Trav. iii. i. v. 8, I went to lodge in a Quervanseray. 1712Addison Spect. No. 289 ⁋9 A house that changes its inhabitants so often, and receives such a perpetual succession of guests, is not a Palace but a Caravansary. 1798T. Maurice Hindostan iv. iii. (1820) II. 252 The birth of Christ [in]..the stable of the caravansera..in the lowly village of Bethlehem. 1801Southey Thalaba v. viii, Not in sumptuous Caravansery. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IV. vii. vi. 170 In Jerusalem there were public caravansaries.
b. transf. and fig.
1760Sterne Serm. Yorick III. 17 What provision the Author of our being has prepared..how many caravanseras of rest! 1805Foster Ess. i. vii. 88 The man whose mind has been a kind of caravansera of opinions. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Oct., The palatial caravanserais of New York.
Hence caravanˈserial a.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Oct., Hotels..at Saratoga Springs [and] their caravanserial congeners in other parts of the United States. |