noun. An inn built around a large court for accommodating caravans along trade routes in central and western Asia.

noun. A large inn or hostelry.

noun. In the East, a place appointed for receiving and lodging caravans; a kind of inn where the caravans rest at night, being a large square building, with a spacious court in the middle.

noun. A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.

noun. Alternative spelling of caravanserai.

noun. an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans

"WHEN the eastern traveler takes shelter from the scorching heat of noon, or halts for the night, in some inn or caravansary, which is, for the time, the house of his pilgrimage, he takes the sackbut or the lyre and sooths his rest with a song-a song it may be of war, romance, or love."

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