serai
Americannoun
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serais
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of serai
1600–10; < Turkish seray < Persian sarāy abode, palace; see caravansary
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No doubt most of them would be younger sons or elder sons who had not yet succeeded, but ... "j'y serai," murmured Dorothy.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
The next air, "Reine! je serai reine!" gives a fine impression of a woman's intoxicated pride.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod
As he passed through the streets on the way back to his serai he felt that he was slinking along like a criminal.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
But before he reached the serai he had partially got the better of this feeling.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
It is simply, excellent one, that while I am absent fighting the English, thou wilt set a guard over the little serai where we dwell.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
"Je serais jamais t'oublier," ran the frightful answers!
From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Richard Le Gallienne
He rode close beside Sherdil all the way, and when they halted at roadside serais for rest and refreshment, those two ate together and squatted or lay side by side.
From Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang
"Je ne serais pas chez moi"; and much as she prized her comfort, it was not worth the sacrifice.
From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
These things are usually carried by travellers on camels, or in carts drawn by oxen; taking likewise tents along with them, to use when they do not find serais.
Beyond the walls, the suburbs formerly extended four coss to the north, but are now all in ruins, except a few tombs, mosques, and goodly serais, in which no persons now dwell.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
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