lamaserai

English

Etymology

From French lamaserie, reinterpreted as lama +‎ serai.

Noun

lamaserai (plural lamaserais)

1. 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.