Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dak-bungalow (which see, underbungalow ).
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- noun A house where
travellers can stay; aguesthouse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan officiated at the opening of the resthouse, which is furnished with various facilities for church use.
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The recreation site at Cape Maclear is heavily used and includes a resthouse, bar, caravan and camping site.
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One stopped and had tea at the resthouse called The Gap at the bottom gate while waiting for the time to go up...all part of the Fraser's Hill experience.
Archive 2008-11-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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One stopped and had tea at the resthouse called The Gap at the bottom gate while waiting for the time to go up...all part of the Fraser's Hill experience.
Bucket and shovel versus... devastation Glenda Larke 2008
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I was taking pictures of some of my Masaai friends, who guard the resthouse that I stayed in for the first 3 months in Misungwi.
PICTURES!!! 2006
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I was taking pictures of some of my Masaai friends, who guard the resthouse that I stayed in for the first 3 months in Misungwi.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The gunmen opened fire with automatic rifles at about 3 p.m. as the vehicle was taking two police lieutenant-colonels to a resthouse in the town, 350 km (220 miles) south of Cairo, the sources said.
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In the middle of the afternoon, weary after a long conference in Shapiro's office, I caught up with them for a belated lunch at the government resthouse.
The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962
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Amber, overwhelmed by the discovery of this abundance, promptly went to the extreme of calling in the khansamah to sluice him down with jar after jar, and felt like himself for the first time in five days when, shaved and dressed, he returned to the common living-room of the resthouse.
The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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When, however, before turning into the evening resthouse, we look back upon the cities, fields, rivers and hills which we have been through in Life's morning, then, in the light of the passing day, are they pictures indeed.
My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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