Sentence examples for caravanserai from inspiring English sources

She saw a hotel as the modern equivalent of a caravanserai, an inn where a traveller could reliably expect to be rested and refreshed after a long day.

SERAI MUSHIR is a string of souvenir shops that started life as a caravanserai, a pit-stop for weary travellers and their camels.

With Swedish and Kuwaiti support, Riwaq has restored other old West Bank towns in their entirety, and turned forlorn old caravanserai into boutique hotels.

Caravansary, also spelled caravanserai, in the Middle East and parts of North Africa and Central Asia, a public building used for sheltering caravans and other travelers.

Mosques, courtyards, areas for bast (sanctuary-taking), seminaries, caravanserai (inns), and bazaars collectively formed the ḥaram (holy site).

Hidden in a gully lies the lodge itself, a handsome blockhouse modelled on a caravanserai.

Hotels in Iran tend to have a slightly Seventies Soviet flavour, but the Hotel Abbasi, restored from an 18th-century caravanserai, and modelled on the palaces of Shah Abbas, felt like a glimpse of another world.

It was not hard to imagine the place as an old caravanserai, or way station, in the days of camels and horse carts.

"Caravanserai," from 1980, is a late Talley Beatty carnival set to a Carlos Santana groove.

The fashion caravanserai, that started in New York, followed by London, now moves on to Paris where the shows start on Tuesday.

Shiva Naipaul set an example in 1982 by describing it as "a town without the faintest traces of charm, a sprawling caravanserai of dusty roads and fenny lanes; a junk-heap of peeling, crumbling buildings, of squatter colonies earthed in tracts of mossy mud; a swarming hive of pan-chewing, meager-limbed men".