choultryn.
/ˈtʃaʊltri/, U.S. /ˈtʃaʊltri/, Indian English /ˈtʃoːlʈri/, /ˈtʃɔːlʈri/ Anglo-Indian.
1. A place for the reception and accommodation of travellers; an inn, caravanserai; also used for the transaction of public business (Yule).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 82 Little better Tenements than Booths, stiled by the name of Choultries.
1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1815) IV. 79 The country was full of choultries, which were inns and hospitals where the traveller and the poor were relieved.
1816 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 637 This Choultry's ample space The way-worn traveller's resting place.
1858 J. B. Norton Topics for Indian Statesmen 197 Posting up a copy of this document in the choultry or most conspicuous place in each village.
2. The pillared hall or colonnade of a temple.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > narthex or portico > [noun]
parvisc1387
Galileec1593
portico1607
pronaos1614
propylaeum1637
out-porch1641
ante-temple1670
narthex1673
prostyle1683
opisthodomos1706
peribolos1706
choultry1772
posticum1776
propylon1830
proaulion1842
opisthodome1846
atrium1853
1772 Call Signs Zodiac in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 353 I searched in my travels many other pagodas, or choultrys, for similar carvings.
1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. iv. 147 Another appendage of these temples is the choultry, or pillared colonnade.
1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 417 In front of the temple or choultry where the idol reposes.
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