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Rest house   /rɛst haʊs/   Listen
Rest house

noun
1.
A building used for shelter by travelers (especially in areas where there are no hotels).





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"Rest house" Quotes from Famous Books



... a rest house, of which there were many built along the roads for the use of travellers, that was placed almost on the top of the sierra or mountain range which surrounds the valley of Tenoctitlan. Next morning we took the road again before dawn, for the cold was so sharp ...
— Montezuma's Daughter • H. Rider Haggard
... 'rushing of a mighty wind,' but soon settled again, and such a din commenced as I shall never forget; the shrill screams of the birds, the fluttering of their innumerable wings, and the rustling of the leaves of the palm trees was almost deafening, and I was glad at last to escape to the Government Rest House."[1] ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


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