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Word: caravanserai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dusk, follow the locals down to the Zayandeh River, with its exquisite arched bridges and discreetly entwined couples. A hop, skip and jump away is the Abbasi Hotel, housed in a former caravanserai. With its restaurants, fitness complex and teahouse - plus a courtyard styled like a traditional Persian garden - it's no wonder the city's beau monde flocks here after dark. Eager to rub shoulders with the all-too-rare tourists in their midst, they'll guarantee you leave Isfahan vowing to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Golden City | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...according to one audience member, Frank L. Washburn ’08, the group’s final piece, “Night at the Caravanserai,” took those feelings of uncertain excitement to an ecstatic level. There were “at least 10 false climaxes,” he says, before a finale that “elicited gasps of surprise and smatterings of applause...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Silk Roads Lead to Harvard | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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