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Definition of Imaret
1. Noun. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
Definition of Imaret
1. n. A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.
Definition of Imaret
1. Noun. An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imaret
1. a Turkish inn [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imaret
Literary usage of Imaret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constantinople by Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (1895)
"... degraded to an immense kitchen, wherein the food of the workmen was prepared.
When that undertaking was completed, the church itself became Eski imaret ..."
2. Unexplored Balūchistan: A Survey, with Observations Astronomical by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1882)
"March to imaret.—Delightful village.— Our hard times past.—The lake.—The " Ab
bazi" and the fish shooter.—A new kind of wall.—Capons. ..."
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