dak bungalow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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For the first time it is cool enough to sleep without the services of the punkah-wallah, and not a soul remains about the dak bungalow after nightfall.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
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
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 Stevens, Thomas
It is the development of ancient patriarchal hospitality, and the dak bungalow, which is provided for European travelers in all hotelless towns and cities, is simply a refinement of the custom.
From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy
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 Stevens, Thomas
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