lamaserai
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French lamaserie, reinterpreted as lama + serai.
Noun
[edit]lamaserai (plural lamaserais)
- Dated form of lamasery.
- 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:
- Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it.