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dak bungalow

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noun

  1. (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated

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One Sunday we foregathered in the cool of the evening at a dak bungalow, near the point where our three districts met, to compare notes and to swap lies.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various

A mile west of the town, I am told, is the Rohilcund Railway, the dak bungalow, and the bungalow of an English Sahib.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens

While watching the interesting performances of the Hindoo, conjurers I have left the bicycle at a little dak bungalow near the old entrance-gate.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens

I want an 'urgent,' care of the Station-master, to catch me at Lahore to-morrow night, and another at Thung dak bungalow next day; unless . . . of course .

From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver

Ludhiana and its dak bungalow, provides refreshments and a three hours' siesta beneath the cooling and seductive punkah, besides an interesting and instructive tete-a-tete with a Eurasian civil officer spending the day here.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens

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