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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The rain ceases, and, with water flinging from my wheel, I seek the civil lines and the dak bungalow three miles farther down the road.

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

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

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

Descending from the Kootub Minar, I am resting beneath the shade of the dak bungalow hard by, when a gray-bearded Hindoo approaches, salaams, and hands me a paper.

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

There is a good serai or inn for native travellers, and a dak bungalow or resting-place for Europeans.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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