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konak - What does it mean?

Definition of 'konak'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 943:
  • It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.

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