chaikhana

English

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Noun

chaikhana (plural chaikhanas)

  1. A teahouse in parts of Central Asia.
    • 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 18:
      On the other bank, opposite our camp, a chaikhana is set on a pile of shingle.
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