OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36120

caravan

/ˈkæɹəvæn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caravana • cáfila
A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
To the left the caravan animals, securely picketed, at regular distances of some fifteen yards apart, occupied an area of several acres.
“Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!” grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house w…
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