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单词 caravansary
释义

caravansary

English

Etymology

Anglicization of caravanserai[1] (from Persian), influenced by -ery (place of), as if “place of caravans” by reanalysis caravan + -s- ((interfix)) + -ary. Compare German Karawanserei.

Noun

caravansary (plural caravansaries)

  1. Alternative spelling of caravanserai
    • 1891, George Washington Cullum, ‎Edward Singleton Holden, ‎Charles Braden, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., page 617:
      Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.
    • 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
      Only in Paris, a cosmopolitan caravansary in itself, did Americans and other foreigners fall nicely into the picture and spoil nothing in the charm of the place.

References

  1. Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, p. 728
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