Definitions
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- n. a caravan of travellers or supplies
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were large animals -- nearly of the shape and size of small horses -- and travelling in single file; as they were, the troop at a distance presented something of the appearance of a "cafila," or caravan.
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On returning to Ujiji after a rather protracted sojourn at Uvira, occasioned by Kannina's not completing his work so quickly as had been anticipated, we found our stock of beads and cloth, which had been left in charge of the Ras-cafila, Sheikh Said, and under the protection of the Beluches and our Wanyamuézi porters, reduced to so low an ebb that everybody felt anxious about our future movements.
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Our cafila bashi (head of caravan) was Sheikh Said, who went with us to Mombas.
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The Cogia cried out loudly, and the people of the cafila came and rescued him.
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
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Thereupon mounting on the camel, he proceeded along with the cafila.
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
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Now there was a camel belonging to the cafila, and the Cogia said to himself, 'Now, if instead of walking I should mount on this camel, how comfortably could I travel!'
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
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One day the Cogia went out of the city along with a cafila or caravan of people, and felt a wish to ride.
The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
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Behold those camels, what a long train; twenty, thirty, a whole cafila descending the street.
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This is a case much dwelt on by the old travellers, and which throws a gloom over the spirits of all Bedouins, and of every cafila or caravan.
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_cafila_ passed with huge loads of cloths of various sorts, carried on asses, going to Bamean: they paid toll I observed at Choky fort.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
qms commented on the word cafila
We dream of a heaven afar
Viewing life as a long cafila,
So though we are weary,
The way slow and dreary,
We trudge toward a bright Shangri-la.
November 16, 2017