lamaserai
English
Etymology
From French lamaserie, reinterpreted as lama + serai.
Noun
lamaserai (plural lamaserais)
- Dated form of lamasery.
- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
- Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it.
- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales: