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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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Hermann Heideck lived in a dak bungalow, one of those hotels kept going by the Government, which afford travellers shelter, but neither bed nor food.

From The Coming Conquest of England by August Niemann

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

Having dined hurriedly in the dak bungalow we asked for our sedan chairs, and, drawing our roof-like topees over our eyes, we started.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

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

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