caravanserai
- n an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans
- A hop, skip and jump away is the Abbasi Hotel, housed in a former caravanserai.
- When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai.
- Transit lounges became a modern caravanserai as we fed and watered ourselves and exchanged stories with passing countrymen.