(n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.
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Caravanserai
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(1) It was a happy discovery for both men, and later a proper biography, A Voyage Round John Mortimer (2007), by Valerie Grove did her subject justice, capturing some of the pleasures of the Mortimer caravanserai: the long Sunday lunches at Turville in winter, the bluebell picnics in Chiltern woods every spring; the summer idylls in that part of Italy he dubbed Chiantishire.
(2) The town used to house one of Syria's finest museums, a collection of Byzantine mosaics in an Ottoman caravanserai.
(3) Could the Eurovision caravanserai's next stop be Baku?
(4) They are everywhere, especially in the old city, where one finds the old forts, caravanserai, mosques and palaces of the Nawabs standing witness to a time that is fast giving way to modernity.