| караван-сарай | caravanserai (Meanwhile, fires were lit under large pots in the caravanserais and chaikhanas adjoining the outside of the toothed city wall, and the rams began to bleat mournfully as they were dragged to slaughter. • He had spent more than ten years in exile, wandering from city to city, from one country to another, crossing seas and deserts, and spending the nights where he could – on the bare earth by a shepherd's meager fire, or in a packed caravanserai, where the camels scratch and pant in the dusty darkness till morning, jingling their bells quietly, or in a smoky, sooty chaikhana, among water-bearers, beggars, and camel drivers lying side by side, along with other poor folk who routinely fill the bazaar squares and narrow city streets with piercing shouts at the break of dawn.
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